The Plough PH

The Plough PH is a public house comprising a two-storey L-shaped main section and a long range to the rear. The building's main section originates from the 17th century and is timber-framed with a roughcast exterior. The rear block is of limestone with a pebble-dashed finish, revealing roughly-dressed quoins on its rear (northeast) gable; both sections have medium-pitched slate roofs with plain bargeboards to the front gables. Chimneys project from the northwest sides of both sections; the primary block’s chimney is of 19th-century stone with oversailing courses and vertical lacing. A 16th-century gabled chimney, corbelled out at first-floor level and with a removed stack, is located on the rear stone block. Two further, plain rendered chimneys are also present on the rear block.

The main, front block features a wide segmental arch, formerly an entrance, now containing two recessed 20th-century 4-pane windows. To the left of this is an advanced gabled section, originally a parlour, with large ground-floor windows to the front and right return, featuring stucco surrounds and moulded labels. These windows have 20th-century wooden frames with horizontal panes and tilting casement sections. Plain Victorian sash windows are set to the first floor, with 20th-century plain and 2-light casements to the right-hand section. A plain projecting stucco string course runs between the ground and first floors, extending onto the east-facing gable end of the main block, which has an entrance with a wooden doorcase featuring plain pilasters and a moulded cornice. A catslide dormer window with modern glazing is set into the northeast roof pitch of the rear block.

The rear range has modern windows to the ground floor of the southeast side, two incorporating 19th-century cambered heads. The upper floor has six plain Victorian sash windows. The northwest side of the rear range has two modern ground-floor windows, and three Victorian sash windows to the first floor. A modern entrance with a boarded door is located in the expressed stone gable end.

The primary section contains a beamed ceiling to the advanced, gabled section (likely the former parlour), featuring a moulded lateral beam and two further plastered beams, along with stopped-chamfered joists, some of which have been replaced. Below this is a partly rock-cut medieval cellar, accessible via a flight of stone steps. The chamber above the former parlour has an open roof with boxed and plastered trusses, revealing a wall post and wall plate indicative of the original timber-framed structure. The rear stone range has a 5-bay roof with heavy pegged oak tie-beam and queen post trusses dating to the 16th century, along with contemporary purlins and rafters. The end bay formerly had a gable chimney; the bressummer is visible on the ground floor, though it has been cut off and a modern entrance created. The upper section of that gable has been rebuilt in recent years using breeze blocks and stone facing.