Malt Scoop Inn Village Stores

The Malt Scoop Inn and Village Stores is a complex building comprising a shop, adjoining house, and inn, likely incorporating some 17th-century fabric but largely extended in the 18th and 19th centuries and remodelled in the 20th. It has a thatched roof, hipped at the front wing of the inn, with the remainder gabled. The inn’s axial stacks are of brick; one is large and likely earlier, while a rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft is at the right gable end. A brick stack is at the left gable end of the adjoining house. The building plan forms a ‘T’ shape.

The main range of the inn, likely the earliest part, has a three-room plan that has been altered. An 18th-century wing was added to the left-hand end, and a 19th-century shop adjoins it, running parallel. Recessed to the left of the shop is a probable 18th-century cottage with two rooms, the left-hand room heated by an end stack.

The exterior presents as two buildings joined together, with parallel projecting wings to the front. The inn has an asymmetrical two-window front with 20th-century casements – two-light on the first floor and three-light on the ground floor of its main range. A 19th-century panelled and glazed door sits to the left, sheltered by a late 19th-century gabled doorhood on wooden brackets. A wing projecting from the left end of the inn has one window on each floor, the first-floor window set under a small gable, with a plank door to the left. A small 19th-century outbuilding with a hipped slate roof projects from the right end of the inn. The shop is single-storey, with a large 20th-century bay window on its end wall. A central doorway with double part-glazed doors is on its inner face, beneath a doorhood matching that of the inn. The cottage to the left, recessed from the shop, has a symmetrical three-window front of early 19th-century 12-pane sashes, and a central 19th-century panelled and part-glazed door with a matching hood above. The inn’s interior exhibits no early features, although some may be concealed.