Bear Cottages The Bear Inn

The Bear Inn, dating from the early 19th century, is attached to a range of cottages that were built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The inn faces High Street and is constructed from ashlar stone with a low-pitched hipped slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-window layout, with the right side canted forward. Features include a raised plinth, a floor band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has a 16-pane sash window and double doors set in a projecting Roman Doric ashlar porch, which has two columns and pilaster responds. To the right, there is an ashlar canted bay with a 12-pane front window and an 8-pane side window. The west end wall has a 12-pane sash window on each floor.

Bear Cottages, located at the rear and facing east, are at a lower level and built from rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof. They feature an axial ridge stack and a corner stack on the wall face, with a coped north gable. The cottages have two and a half storeys and two coped dormer gables, each containing a 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window with a hoodmould. The first floor has four sash windows in bead-moulded surrounds: a pair to the left, a single in the centre, a narrow single with thick glazing bars, and a large single window to the right. The ground floor has a row of mullion windows arranged as 2-3-2 lights with a dripstone, a 6-panel door to No 1 in a chamfered doorcase, a pair of 12-pane sashes, and a 6-panel door to No 2 set in a timber porch. The north end wall features a 2-light recessed cyma-moulded attic mullion window and a bead-moulded single light at ground level. There is a rear wing with a coped west gable and paired upper 12-pane sashes. Attached to the cottages is No 3, a later extension with a coped west gable and a west end stack, which has two upper 12-pane sashes, a pair of ground floor casement windows, and a door in a chamfered surround. There is also a 20th-century two-storey extension beyond.