The Lamb Inn Including Raised Pavement To South

The Lamb Inn, a public house, has a core dating back to the 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century, and alterations and modernisation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The external walls are partly of plastered volcanic rubble, some of which is of roughly coursed squared blocks, with a slate roof (originally thatched). The building is a 3-room-and-through-passage house facing south, with a former inner room at the east end. There are end stacks to the inner and service rooms, and a lateral hall stack projecting to the front. The front has an irregular 3-window arrangement. The eastern end is slightly higher, with a visible straight joint between two builds at first floor level. This section has a 19th-century door and early 19th-century tripartite sash windows with central 16-pane sashes on each floor. A first-floor 9-pane sash window and a ground-floor 20th-century casement are found within a blocked shopfront with pilasters and entablature in the service room. All sashes are hornless and retain much old glass. A 6-panel door leads to the passage, sheltered by a late 19th-century monopitch hood on shaped brackets. The projecting hall stack to the right of the door is of dressed volcanic stone blocks with a chimney shaft and cap dating from the late 16th to early 17th centuries. The interior has been much altered, but the position of the through passage is still discernible. A section of 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen from the lower side of the passage is now set on the back wall. A chamfered C17 axial beam is present in the hall, featuring bar-scroll stops. There is also a plain chamfered beam in the inner room. The roof was completely renewed in the 19th century. In front of the inn (to the south) is a raised pitched stone pavement with a volcanic rubble revetment and a volcanic stone kerb, featuring a simple iron rail on wooden posts and a pitched stone ramp.