The Boot Inn

The Boot Inn is an inn dating from around 1600, with additions made to the front around 1700 and in the 19th century. The building features timber-framing that has been rebuilt in rubble stone, with dressed limestone additions, and has a concrete tiled roof with brick stacks. It has an original three-cell plan and is two storeys high with three windows.

On the south side, there is a 20th-century door leading into the 18th-century range, which has a blocked door and 20th-century casements to the left. The first floor features a blocked sash window with a plain architrave. The main range to the right has two 20th-century two-light mullioned casements and a blocked doorway on the ground floor, along with two 20th-century two-light mullioned casements on the first floor.

The front of the 18th-century range to the left includes a stone two-storey canted bay with four-pane sashes, a segmental-headed stone tablet inscribed with 'The Boot Inn', and an incised inscription on the first floor that reads 'BENETT AND INDEPENDENCE', which is an election slogan. The 16th-century range to the left has recessed chamfered mullioned casements with two and three lights.

Attached to the right of the main front is a single-storey 19th-century extension featuring a 20th-century bay window and a polygonal roof. The rear of the building has a cast-iron casement and a pointed doorway to the left, with two-light and three-light casements to the right. The first floor includes a two-light mullioned casement and wooden casements.

Inside, some square-panelled timber-framing remains in the wall between the original range and the 18th-century addition. The middle room, which was formerly a parlour, has a deeply chamfered beam with stepped stops, and the north room features an open fireplace with a chamfered arched lintel. The south room has a chamfered beam indicating the position of a former smoke hood, which has since been replaced in stone.