The Heart in Hand

The Heart in Hand is a public house located on Cores End Road in Wooburn, dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The right bay may date from the 16th to early 17th century. The building is timber framed with brick infill, and the front has been rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The left side features a gabled cross wing with whitewashed roughcast and some half-timbering on the front gable, along with a tile-hung rear gable. The main section has a 20th-century tiled roof, while the right bay retains an older tiled roof. There are later brick chimneys. The building is L-shaped, with the cross wing on the left, a lower bay on the right, and 20th-century rear extensions. The main part is two storeys high, while the right bay has been altered to a single storey. The structure consists of three and a half bays, with a half bay between the centre bay and the cross wing. Windows are irregular 20th-century barred wooden casements, and the centre bay features a rectangular bay window. There is a 20th-century door to the right of the cross wing and a 20th-century projecting porch to the right of the centre bay, with a tiled pent roof over the ground floor openings. Inside, the timber framing is visible, with straight diagonal bracing in the main bays and slightly curved bracing in the right bay. It appears that the chimney has been removed from the half-bay, and there is a stop-chamfered spine beam in the centre bay.