Talbot Inn

The Talbot Inn is a house, now divided into three houses, shops, and a public house, dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations in the late 18th or early 19th century and shop fronts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The front is painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a hipped slate roof, tarred on the section at No. 1, and two rendered chimneys. The building is L-shaped and has been remodelled internally. It is three storeys high, featuring a seven-window range on the High Street elevation and a four-window range on The Quay. Raised quoins are visible at the corners and at opposing ends of No.1 High Street and No.9 The Quay. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched with keystones, and the majority have six-paned sashes within box frames, although the lower sashes on the High Street front of No.1 differ. The third-floor windows are flat-headed with barred sashes, arranged as four panes over eight panes, within box frames. A dentilled eaves cornice runs along the top.

Inside No.1, original moulded plaster cornices remain on the first and second floors. An oval ceiling panel is visible in a first-floor corner room, with a late 19th-century slate fireplace featuring imitation marbling. A right-hand first-floor room has a late 18th or early 19th century panelled dado and a reeded fireplace, which is reported to conceal an oven. The ground-floor toilet contains coloured glass. No.2 retains original moulded plaster cornices on the first floor. The roof structure includes original trusses with through-purlins, with collars nailed to the faces of the principal rafters.

No.9 The Quay has a late 18th-century round-arched cupboard on the first-floor landing, within an addition to the original building, featuring a fluted keyblock. Panelled doors with applied moulding are also present there. A late 19th-century wood fireplace has detached columns and a frieze with urns and cannon motifs. The ground-floor area has shop fittings dating from the 1920s or 1930s. All three houses contain late 18th or early 19th century wood staircases with thin square balusters; the staircase at No.2 has shaped step-ends and a handrail ramped over column newels. A bollard attached to the corner of the building is separately listed.