Friars Head

Friars Head is a large house built around 1670, possibly by the Proctor family, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The house has a hall with two cross wings at the rear and a gable end facing the street.

The garden entrance front is two storeys high with four projecting bays. The entrance porch, located in the second bay, has a moulded surround with imposts and a basket arch made of 11 voussoirs. Inside the porch is an oak plank door with a Tudor arch. Above the porch, there is a dripmould and a sundial with a gnomon and moulded surround. The façade includes three ground floor and four upper floor bay windows, all double chamfered mullioned windows with six lights and transoms, as well as transomed single lights on the return of each bay. Each floor features dripmoulds, and the gables of each bay have ogee-headed tripartite blind windows with mullions and shaped hood-moulds. Ball finials are present at the apex of the gables and on the kneelers, with those on the left and right-hand sides dating from around 1985. There are ridge stacks at both the left and right gable ends.

Inside, the front left-hand room, which was formerly the kitchen, contains a massive inglenook fireplace with a chamfered surround and a basket arch made of 16 voussoirs. The front right-hand room, previously a parlour, has a small fireplace with a chamfered surround and a flat arched lintel. A 19th-century dog-leg staircase is located in the angle between the main block and the right-hand rear wing. On the upper floor landing, there are three late 17th-century door surrounds featuring nicked ogees on the lintels.