Royal Mail Public House (Part)

The Royal Mail Public House is an early 17th-century building, substantially remodelled externally in the mid-19th century. It has solid rendered walls and a hipped slate roof, with a rendered chimney visible from the adjacent churchyard. The building is three storeys high and has a three-window front facing Church Walk, featuring a raised band above the ground storey. The ground-floor windows are boarded up. A 19th-century double door, with two moulded panels to each leaf, is located at the right-hand end of the front. The upper storeys contain box-framed sash windows, with the outer windows on the second storey having margin panes. The front facing Bridge Street has no openings, although the raised band continues around the building. The interior was not inspected, but according to a description by W.H. Rogers, the early 17th-century interior features a broad-ribbed ceiling divided by inserted partitions. Wall paintings in a bedroom depict the arms of the Marwood family – a chevron between three caboshed goat heads, horned.