Three Stags Head

The Three Stags Head is a former farmhouse with attached outbuildings, dating to the mid-to-late 18th century, with 19th and 20th-century alterations and additions. It is now a public house and storage building. The house is constructed of rubble limestone with gritstone dressings, with the front now finished with painted roughcast. The west gable has coping, and the roof is covered in Welsh slate, except for the taller bay at the east end, which is stone-slated. Ridge and end stacks are present.

The building has a linear plan, with a stepped public house section at the east end, containing three public bar areas arranged axially within, with a servery in the central bar. The western part, originally farm buildings, now serves as a store. The public house part is two storeys and four bays, with the east end bay taller and potentially of later construction. It has small, multi-paned windows set within painted stone surrounds on both floors. The ground floor has an off-centre doorway with a shallow bracketed hood, flanked by windows with small paned frames also within painted stone surrounds; the heads of the first-floor windows are at eaves level. Further to the west is a single ground-floor doorway. Attached outbuildings range in six bays, single-storey with overlofts, and feature a flight of stone steps at the east end leading to an overloft doorway with an elaborate stone surround. Two further overloft openings, originally taking-in doors, are now glazed. There is an off-centre ground-floor doorway and a blocked door, now a window, at the west end.

The central bar has an internal timber porch and a stone-flagged floor. A hearth with a massive, deep lintel and a moulded mantel shelf, supported by jowelled jambs, is present, along with 19th-century iron hearth fittings. To the right is a built-in wall cupboard with a fielded panelled door. The outbuildings contain five stalls with stone partitions.

The building illustrates both its historical use as a farm and as a small, largely unaltered rural public house. It is a well-detailed vernacular farmhouse and outbuilding range, sited on a main north-south route, and retains a domestic-scale interior, which is a rare survival.