Duke Of York Inn

The Duke of York Inn is a 19th-century public house located in Elton, featuring regularly coursed gritstone with plain stone copings and stone end stacks. The front roof is covered with 20th-century concrete tiles, while the other roofs have stone tiles.

The building has a symmetrical three-bay front that is two storeys high, with a chamfered corner on the ground floor at the east end. It has 8 over 8 pane sash windows without horns, set within flush stone surrounds. The central doorway is topped with a semi-circular fan-light and has a flat stone canopy supported by tall, moulded stone brackets. The door itself is plain. There is a two-storey range at right angles to the front range and a single-storey lean-to in the angle between these parts, featuring various forms of sash and casement windows, along with a glazed lean-to entrance porch.

Inside, the rear Tap Room includes a servery with a hatch leading to the Snug bar at the front. The bar counter has upright rectangular panels and above it are glazed panels with evidence of a former vertical sash screen. This bar counter and the glazed panels were installed around 1990, along with the right-hand part of the counter and the screen above, which were previously attached to the wall between the servery and Snug. There are timber baffles on either side of the entrance doorway, a matchboarded partition between the Tap Room and corridor, fixed wall seating, and a stone fire surround. The Snug and the room at the front right have panelled doors, with the latter featuring two full-height built-in cupboards in the right-hand wall and fixed seating. The upper floor contains a large Club Room that can be subdivided with a sliding matchboarded partition, and there is a segmental stone vault in the cellar.

The Duke of York Inn is a village public house that retains its late 19th-century plan and fittings, making it an increasingly rare example of its kind.