The Hen And Chickens Public House

The Hen and Chickens Public House is a former open hall house that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the early 16th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. The building features a timber frame with brick infill and encasement from the 19th century. It has an old tiled pitched roof with two gabled dormers at the front. There is an external gable stack on the right and an axial ridge stack on the left made of thin bricks. The structure is one and a half storeys tall and has a seven-window range on the ground floor. There are two entrances, with the one on the right featuring a bracketed, tiled hood. Most of the windows are 20th-century casements.

Inside, the building reveals the timber frame of a three-bay hall house with a queen post roof. The rear pitch of the roof has arched windbraces, while the front has been repaired. The right-hand bay is open to the roof, the central bay has a low ceiling, and the left-hand bay features a chamfered and stopped spine beam along with an inglenook fireplace that has a chamfered bressumer. The left-hand bay is a later addition, likely from the late 17th or early 18th century, and includes a cellar and a short cross icing to the rear.