The Sidmouth Arms Including Front Boundary Walls

The Sidmouth Arms, including the front boundary walls, is a public house built around 1870. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble, featuring Membury stone ashlar details, with stone rubble stacks and ashlar chimney shafts, all topped by a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing west and containing the main rooms. It has a three-room layout, each with a gable-end stack, and a central through-passage leading to the main stair located in a rear outshot. A rear block, which was formerly the kitchen wing, projects at a right angle from the south end and has a rear gable-end stack.

The exterior is symmetrical with a four-window front, showcasing two-light stone windows with shoulder-headed lights, although the shoulder heads of the left window bay have been removed. The windows are topped with segmental relieving arches, and the outer first-floor windows feature gables above them. The central front doorway includes the original part-glazed door, set within an original gabled porch adorned with cusped bargeboards pierced with trefoils and a shaped finial. Ashlar quoins are present at each end, and there is a timber openwork valance under the eaves. The left gable-end follows the same bargeboard pattern, while the right gable-end has plain bargeboards.

Inside, the pub retains much original joinery detail, with some exposed carpentry in the 17th-century style, including stop-chamfered crossbeams and open brick fireplaces with timber lintels. The Sidmouth Arms is part of a notable group of 19th-century buildings funded by Lord Sidmouth, which constitute much of the village of Upottery.