Ye Old Corner Cupboard

This is a 16th-century farmhouse, later converted into an Inn, with a substantial 19th-century malthouse attached. The building is constructed from squared and dressed limestone, with a stone slate roof and saddle-back coping to the left gable. A large T-plan stone stack, raised in brick, is situated on the ridge, slightly off-centre. To the right of the entrance is another stack. The main elevation features two prominent buttresses with offsets, which were added soon after the original construction. Similar buttresses are present on the return gable to the left. A long wing extending along Malthouse Lane was formerly the malthouse.

The main block is two storeys with an attic and a partial basement, featuring a three-window front. The roof has two 2-light 19th-century casement gabled dormers. The windows on the first floor are three-light ovolo-mould stone mullioned casements with stopped drips. The lower level has smaller 2-light windows of a similar design, over the main entrance. At ground floor level, there are two 4-light casements with a king mullion, and a 7-light casement arranged as 3, 2, 2 with two king mullions. All windows have ovolo-mould mullions and stopped drips. An opening in the plinth beneath one window has a moulded surround and grille, approached by steps leading down to the basement. The entrance is a plank door set in a flat pointed stone head with plain spandrels, and is approached by four stone steps in a quadrant. A 2-light over a 3-light ovolo-mould mullioned casement is set within the gable to the left.

The malthouse section is two storeys with an attic and has various 19th-century windows in four bays. The interior contains fragments from Winchcombe Abbey, including sections of double-roll rib, built into the gable wall. There are broad chamfered beams and two fireplaces opposite the lobby entrance. The fireplace to the right has a large 4-centred chamfered and moulded opening, with a simpler version to the left of the door. A deep wood bressummer, supported by a deep wood ‘fin’ at the first king mullion, is located above the 7-light window on the first floor. Two 17th-century corner cupboards remain in the bar. A fine segmental-headed 6-panel fielded door connects the 16th-century and 19th-century sections. The Inn’s name derives from the interior fittings. It became an Inn in 1872.