Magpie Inn Public House

Magpie Inn Public House

This corner-site public house is constructed of white-painted brick with an unpainted brick plinth and modern roof tiles. The building is Vernacular Revival in style with steeply pitched and low sweeping roofs, featuring several prominent tall brick chimneys with angled stacks.

The main south elevation displays three bays across two storeys with an attic. The central bay contains a partially blocked entrance (formerly serving the off-sales counter) and the main entrance to the left, which leads into the public bar. This main entrance is flanked by four-light and two-light flush windows. The first floor of this central bay is blind, finished with a pair of hipped roof dormers with applied wooden batons creating a half-timbered effect. The left narrow end bay projects as a gabled stair tower, largely blind except for a flush tripartite first floor window. The wide right end bay has a ground floor flush five-light window, and at first floor level a three-light flush window flanked by single lights. At attic level, this bay contains a diamond-shaped window. Attached to the left is a single-storey flat-roofed L-shaped service range incorporating a bowls store and enclosing a small courtyard, entered through a round-headed entrance.

The east elevation comprises a single-storey bay with a very low sweeping roof incorporating a dormer window. Twin entrance porches, flanked by separate lavatories for men and women, provide access to the smoking room and tea room respectively. The rear north elevation replicates the main elevation's design, featuring similar fenestration, dormer windows and a brick chimney stack, with steps descending to the bowling green.

Internally, the main entrance leads into a public bar with a parquet floor and polished beamed ceiling, featuring replacement fixed cushioned bench seating. A segmental pointed arched fireplace with copper inset occupies the centre of the left wall, and a former veranda runs along the north side. A door from the north wall accesses the gents' toilet, which retains original urinals and a single panelled cubicle.

The rectangular service area to the right serves both the bar and former off-sales. Its lower parts are enclosed by reproduction wooden panels and upper parts by original glazed panels, with a copper-topped bar counter. Wooden baffles are recent insertions. Immediately right of the main entrance is the small off-sales area, featuring a glazed hatch to the service area and an original black and white tiled floor. A formerly open door is now blocked with an inserted window.

The smoking room and tea room lie further right, separated by a corridor with black and white tiled flooring. Both rooms have replacement fixed seating, coved ceilings, and are oak-panelled throughout. Each contains a fireplace with copper and coloured tile work and tiled hearths. The tea room has a separate service door from the service area. Both rooms open onto the spinal corridor via double oak doors; the corridor itself is partly oak-panelled and partly glazed-panelled. At the east end of the passage are women's and men's toilets retaining some original fittings.

The first floor is accessed via a simple wooden staircase from the south-west corner of the public bar. An L-shaped corridor provides access at intervals to several rooms, all with original doors; two rooms contain fireplaces, one with coloured tile work.

The building occupies a corner site with a three-room plan, overlooking a bowling green to the north and a service yard attached to the west.