Cape'S Stores Old Rose And Crown

Old Rose and Crown and Cape's Stores is an inn and dwelling, now functioning as a dwelling and shop. It dates from the 17th century and has been altered over time. The building is rendered over random rubble and cob, with a thatched roof and an asbestos slate roofed addition on the right. There is a rendered stone stack on the left gable end, a lateral stack with a brick cap between the second and third bays on the left, a brick stack between the fourth and fifth bays, and a stone stack rising from the eaves between the sixth and seventh bays.

The plan is not clear without an internal inspection, but it appears to consist of a shop addition on the right, alongside a three-cell and cross passage dwelling with two cells and a storeroom beyond the cross passage on the left. The building has two storeys and features a facade with 2:5:1 bays, with the end bay on the left unlit on the first floor. The windows include 19th and 20th century two and three-light casements, a 20th century shop window in the end bay on the right, and a 16-pane sash window to the left. There is a gabled rustic porch beyond the sixth bay with a stable-type door, and a flat-roofed porch with a half-glazed door in the third bay. The left return has a small six-pane sash window on the first floor, while the right return features a two-light window and a 20th century entrance to the shop.

Although the interior was not sighted, it is reported to contain ovolo moulded beams in the room to the right of the sixth bay entrance, along with a winder stair in a turret projection at the rear and a fine small wall cupboard. This cupboard is missing its four-centred arch head door but has the initials I H and A H along with the date 1624.