The Fox and Grapes PH

The Fox and Grapes Public House is a second-half 17th century inn that has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a lobby-entry plan and is L-shaped with a cross-wing to the right. The building has a medium-pitched slate roof with plain eaves and a central brick chimney, along with modern chimneys on the cross-wing and at the rear of the main block. The front is asymmetrical and rendered, with stucco quoins and a moulded stucco string-course.

There is a centrally-placed early 20th century single-storey porch with a gabled, tiled roof. The entrance has a rusticated, arched surround with moulded abaci and a keystone. To the right, there is a contemporary mono-pitched, tile-roofed addition that links to the projecting cross-wing. The building features a flush, 18-pane tripartite window and a similar window on the ground floor of the cross-gable. To the left of the porch, there is a flush 18-pane fixed window and a similar sliding window above, with a 12-pane sliding casement on the first floor to the right. The cross-wing gable has decorative timber framing added in the 20th century.

At the rear, there is a late 18th century two-storey brick stable block beneath a continuous shallow-pitched slate roof with dentilated eaves. This stable block has four entrances of varying sizes, two with cambered heads, and three with contemporary wooden doors. The upper floor has small shuttered windows, while there is a modern garage door to the left and a modern glazed extension at the junction with the main building.

Inside, there is a large inglenook with a wide, depressed-arched wooden bressumer featuring a plain chamfer in the main room. The ceiling is framed in two ways, with some original beams that are plain stopped and chamfered, and one supporting beam with simple moulded stops of late 17th century style.