Black Horse House

Black Horse House is a late 17th-century inn, now a private house, located on the west side of The Street, East Knoyle. The building is constructed of dressed limestone with a tiled roof, coped verges, and brick stacks. It is two stories high, originally with a five-window frontage. The front features a seven-panelled door within a moulded architrave, positioned to the right of centre. To the right of the door is a two-light casement window and a 19th-century two-story canted bay with margin-pane windows. To the left of the door sits a nine-panelled door with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets, alongside a two-light and a three-light casement window. The first floor has four two-light casement windows and a canted bay mirroring the ground floor’s design. A recessed triangular-headed panel is positioned above the front door. A rear brick wing, featuring 20th-century casement windows, is attached to the main range. A former clubroom, situated on the first floor of the rear wing, has been incorporated. A glazed conservatory, originally from Fonthill and relocated in the 1970s, is also attached to the rear of the main range. The interior includes chamfered beams, an open fireplace with a chamfered stone lintel on chamfered stone jambs, and some doors with four fielded panels. The building operated as the Black Horse Inn until the mid-19th century, and was later used as a Post Office during the 1930s.