The Widdicombe Arms

The Widdicombe Arms is a village temperance inn, estate club house, and caretaker's house, now a public house with an integral restaurant and accommodation. It was designed in 1880-1881 and dated 1882 by William Butterfield for Anthony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings and irregular quoins, with mock timber framing to parts of the first floor. It has plain tiled roofs and ashlar and rubble stacks.

The complex is an irregular and asymmetrical group, comprising the inn itself, the former club hall, and the former caretaker's house. The main inn section has two coped gables with finials; the left gable features a chequer-board pattern. The ground floor has single-light casements and cross windows, while the first floor has two- and five-light windows. A right-hand window is topped by a flat gable with pinnacles. A decorative Gothic-style downpipe with the letter “G” is present. A projecting, off-centre gabled porch has clasping buttresses, panelled doors within a hollow-chamfered, pointed surround, and a hoodmould. To the left of the centre is an irregular two-bay section with varying heights, and to the right is a projecting, single-storey gabled wing with two-light casement windows. A further irregular two-bay section sits to the right of the centre, featuring a blocked door to the left and a 20th-century bow-fronted extension to the right. The first floor has timber framing, with a gabled dormer on corbels. The 20th-century extension connects the inn to the former club hall via a porch with a hipped roof.

The club hall is a single-storey, five-bay structure with a rubble base and timber framing. It has single-light casement windows, and a projecting central bay with a 1:2:1 light canted stone design. The windows here have ashlar surrounds and shouldered heads, and the section is topped with a half-pyramidal roof and a cast-iron finial. The north-west gable end is stone with a two-light Geometrical style window. A single-storey entrance wing is set back on the right, with a plank door in an ashlar surround featuring a cusped head and flanking buttresses. Behind that, facing onto the Grove, is the former caretaker's house, featuring a flat roof concealed behind a moulded cornice and a moulded string course. It has two bays with two- and three-light casement windows, including chamfered mullions and relieving arches on the ground floor. A central plank door is set within a segmental headed surround and under a triangular dripmould. Rear elevations are also irregular and asymmetrical, incorporating bows, bays, and turrets across three floors. The interior of the inn has been altered; the former hall retains a timbered roof.