Jolly Sailor Inn

The Jolly Sailor Inn is a public house that may have originally been known as the Church House, as it was called the Church House Inn in the 1820s. It dates from the 16th or 17th century and is constructed of rendered stone, possibly with some cob. The building features a thatched roof with gables at each end and stands two storeys tall. Its windows are irregularly arranged and consist of 19th-century wooden casements. There are two doorways on the ground floor, each accompanied by a window to the left. Above these doorways and the window between them is a slated pent roof supported by wooden brackets. A moulded string course is visible at the sill level of the second storey. The second storey has four windows grouped in the centre, and to the left of these is a wrought-iron bracket for an inn sign. Under the eaves of the roof, remnants of a corbel-table can be seen. Each gable features a stone stack, with the eastern stack being particularly large and having offsets, topped with a later brick shaft.

Inside, the ground floor has heavy chamfered ceiling beams, some of which have straight-cut stops. It is said that there was once a through passage leading from the left-hand front door, although no structural evidence remains. There is a small fireplace in the west gable with a chamfered wood lintel and straight-cut stops. In the east gable, there is a large fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel and a substantial stone-lined oven with a rectangular stone opening. The second storey includes a stud-and-panel partition, with chamfered studs and indeterminate stops. The roof trusses, which are mostly plastered, are primarily side-pegged jointed crucks.