The Crown And Sceptre

The Crown and Sceptre is a public house dating to approximately 1910-1920, built on the site of an earlier building. The main entrance was blocked and relocated in the mid-20th century. The exterior is rough cast, likely over brick, with pilaster quoin strips and quoins around the window openings, which have flat lintels. The roof is concealed behind a crenellated parapet.

The building has a plan consisting of a single room with a carriageway opening on the right side, and a rear extension. It is three storeys high and three bays wide. The sash windows on the first and second floors each have one vertical glazing bar in the lower frame. The central window was originally the entrance, and the square-headed carriageway entrance has double wooden gates that sweep down to the centre, with latticework in the upper panels. A 20th-century Georgian-style door with a fanlight now provides access to the bar from a re-entrant angle. The interior has been updated in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Photographs within the bar show the building in 1901, decorated for the coronation of Edward VII. At that time, it was a two-storey, three-bay building with a steeply pitched roof, sash windows, and a central entrance reportedly functioning as a passage to stables at the rear. The building is included on the list primarily for its group value.