The Harrow Inn

The Harrow Inn is a roadside inn dating from around the 18th century, possibly incorporating 17th-century fabric, which was enlarged in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building stands on a sloping site rising from east to west and has a linear plan with its principal elevation facing south. The 18th-century phase occupies the western side, with 19th-century additions to the east. The 18th-century section features timber framing with brick infill, hung tiles, and a rubble stone ground floor to the two-storey section. The 19th and 20th-century extensions have rubble stone or brick to the ground floor and hung tiles to the first floor. The roof is covered with clay tiles.

The principal elevation consists of an 18th-century single-storey range with a cellar below, clad in hung tiles. It has a raised planked door above a brick plinth with steps to both sides. Multi-pane casement windows flank the door—nine panes to the left and twelve panes to the right—whilst at cellar level a smaller three-pane casement window has a frame with diamond mullions. To the right (east) is a two-storey addition with a rubble stone ground floor and hung tile cladding to the first floor. This section has casement windows (eight-pane and nine-pane) to either side of a timber planked door signed "public bar", surmounted by a pantile-covered hood on timber brackets. The first floor has a 12-pane casement window. The 19th-century phase extends further right in similar form and materials, with a timber planked door signed "smoking room" fronted by a timber veranda with a plain balustrade attached to curved supports, under a clay-tiled lean-to roof. Two 12-pane casements sit on the first floor. The roof is gabled to the west and hipped to the east end, with four irregular chimneys that appear to have been rebuilt or added in the 19th century.

The west elevation of the 18th-century phase is single storey, clad in hung tile with a timber-planked door. The rear elevation exposes timber framing to its upper part, featuring a two-pane casement window. The frame comprises corner posts, a mid-rail and wall plate supporting small box framing infilled with brick, beneath which sits a rubble stone and brick wall. A 20th-century brick-built outshut with a functional door occupies the centre of the rear elevation under a clay-tiled roof. The outshut continues further east at a lower roof pitch with two eight-pane casements, exposing the hung tile of the first floor with a single six-pane casement window. The 19th-century east end elevation is clad in hung tile above a brick ground floor, which has a multi-pane canted bay window.

Internally, the ground floor rooms are interconnected in linear fashion by doorways on the south side (now sealed), and both bar rooms have external doorways to the south. The first floor is accessed by a stair rising from the kitchen within the 18th-century phase.

Within the 18th-century cellar, the floor frame consists of roughly hewn joists supported by a hefty chamfered spine beam. The rear wall has a pantry shelf and the east wall has a former fireplace opening beneath a plastered smoke hood. The floor is covered with terracotta quarry tiles inset with a strip of grey brick pavers. The kitchen room has a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. The stairs are straight and rise between match-boarded walls.

The 18th-century bar room has a floor frame of square-cut and chamfered joists. The walls are clad in matchboard with a dado rail. An early 20th-century bar hatch features a half-height planked door beneath a lifting counter. To the left-hand side is a small fixed counter with a glazed folding screen. Ledge and brace shutters sit to either side, with raised and fielded panelling underneath to the left-hand side. A large inglenook fireplace with a timber bressumer is built of narrow bricks and contains a cast-iron grate and inset bread oven. The floor is covered with alternating black and terracotta quarry tiling.

Behind the bars is a 20th-century bar back with stillage. At the east end sits a vestibule with an internal ledge and brace door and an external stable door. The outshut is connected to the 19th-century bar room by a doorway with a half-height panelled door and a small fixed counter. Steps lead down into the 19th-century bar room, which is timber-panelled to dado level and has two machine-cut spine beams. The north wall of this bar room has a timber fireplace with a cast-iron insert decorated with yellow tiles.

Across the road to the south is a symmetrical toilet block facing north, entered from opposing ends for privacy and also via a central entrance with a solid panelled door. Each side has 12-pane casement windows on timber cills. The walls are constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond. The roof is hipped at both ends and clay-tiled, with a brick chimney stack to the left-hand hip. The fixtures and fittings are 20th-century.