The Old Coat Inn

The Old Coat Inn is a detached house, originally an inn, likely dating from the 18th century, although it may incorporate an earlier structure. It is constructed primarily of ham stone, appearing as near-ashlar, with a roof of plain clay tiles between stepped coped gables, and brick chimney stacks at the ends. The building is two storeys high with an attic, and has three bays. It features mullioned windows with beaded surrounds; the outer bays have three-light windows, the upper bay of the second bay has two-light windows, all with rectangular leaded panes in steel casements. A boarded door, set within a beaded surround, is located in a simple open stone porch, supported by circular columns with cushion caps and a plain top crowned with a cyma-recta edged flat roof. A single-storey extension, with a triple-roll clay tile roof, adjoins the south-west gable and was undergoing alterations in July 1985. The interior remains unexamined. The building may have been known as the George Inn as early as 1617 and was subsequently known as the Royal Marine Inn in the 1950s and 1960s.