The Cricketers Arms public house

Public House, early- to mid-C19, with late-C20 alterations.

PLAN: three-storey front range aligned east-west, with long rear range.

MATERIALS: stuccoed brick, slate roof with orange and grey clay ridge tiles.

EXTERIOR: facing north onto Market Place. Three storeys, and two bays plus a canted north-east corner bay. The ground floor has a replacement, C19-style panelled public house front with a full entablature, that occupies the east, north-east and the main (north) walls. The recessed entrance is approached by two steps; it has a four-panel door with an oblong fanlight, and has a conical hexagonal glazed C19 oil lamp, which has been converted to electric power and is suspended on a decorative wrought-iron bracket. The first floor has three four-pane sash windows with moulded architraves and modillioned cornice on consoles. The second floor has similar windows, without a glazing bar to the upper sash, and the consoles support a modillioned eaves cornice that supports an ogee rainwater gutter. The fair-faced brick-built east gable rises above the roof of the adjacent property and has an apex chimney stack. Most of the roof is pitched and has a central ridge chimney stack; however, the section above the canted corner is hipped.