Bodkin House

Bodkin House is a house that now operates as a restaurant. It dates from the early 18th century and may have been a remodelling of a 17th-century building, with alterations made in the early to mid-19th century. The exterior is rendered and sits on an ashlar plinth, topped with a reproduction stone slate roof and ashlar stacks featuring a cornice. The building has two storeys, cellars, and attics with three gabled dormers. The ground floor includes five windows and a door, with one window located in a lower wing to the right, while the first floor has eight windows. The windows are eighteen-pane, thick glazing bar sash windows in exposed boxes, and there are two early to mid-19th-century bay windows on the ground floor. A projecting Tuscan column porch with a plain entablature, cornice, and blocking course leads to a panelled door. The house also features extensive rear wings.

Inside, there is a stop-chamfered beam and a large ashlar fireplace in the rear wing, along with a shell-headed cupboard in the left room on the ground floor. Jane Austen is reputed to have visited the inn, which was formerly known as the Old Beaufort Arms Inn, around 1794, and she mentioned the house in her novel "Northanger Abbey."