Volunteer Arms (Staggs), 79-81 North High Street

Mid 19th century; 1888 and circa 1900 alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular plan gabled public house with roughly central opening to close and with public house front at left with 6-panelled timber doors to public bar and to former jug bar and with well-preserved pub interior. Front elevation harled and washed; squared sandstone rubble to side; painted margins and raised painted cills. Base course to front and side elevations; deep string course and eaves course to front elevation. Regular fenestration to first floor with bipartite windows to outer bays. 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; plate glass to pub window. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; ashlar coped stacks (some with replacement cope) with yellow clay cans.

INTERIOR OF PUBLIC HOUSE: well-preserved Victorian decorative scheme. Lobby at entrance to bar; 2-leaf inner door with stained leaded glass to upper panel, the right panel inscribed JUG BAR (re-sited when jug bar removed). Timber boarding to walls with decorative reeding at regular intervals, with bells still in place; compartmented timber ceiling to main area with timber cornice. Timber panelled and glazed partitions enclosing seating area with decorative finials and some remaining gas light fixtures; timber panelled dado in rear snug. Panelled counter-front with decorative carved scrolls; gantry with spirit casks. Mirror advertising William Whitelaw & Son's Pale Ales to left wall.