Royal Head P.H.

The Royal Head Public House is a 17th-century timber-framed building with a lobby entry, featuring later 19th-century alterations. It has been significantly extended to the right during the 19th century. The building displays a long, black and white square panelled frontage, standing two storeys high with three windows on each floor, and includes an added shopfront on the ground floor. The left section has wattle and daub infill, while the right section features brick nogging, which was recently rendered. The roofs are slate, with the left side renewed, and the right side is slightly higher. There is a modern red brick chimney stack on the left and a dark stack in the centre of the right section. The eaves on the left are wide boarded, while the right has a dentil eaves band.

The 17th-century part has flush frame sash windows of varying sizes; the first-floor windows are smaller panes, with the central window being a 16-pane design beneath a gable adorned with ornamental bargeboards and a pendant. The ground floor features generally larger sashes, including two fixed glazed windows, while the 19th-century section has recessed windows. The shopfront on the right has been altered, featuring a cornice and pilasters with an 8-pane window. There was also a shopfront at the left end, as seen in early 20th-century views. The main entrance to the public house is a modern boarded door, with a recessed half-glazed door to the right of the shopfront.

The left gable end is finished in pebbledash on rubble, with casement and sash windows, and a red brick extension beyond. There are modern extensions at the rear. Originally, a large yard was enclosed by a further range of buildings, as indicated on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.

Inside, the hall, now serving as the main bar, features an inglenook fireplace with a deep bressumer and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. The partition between the hall and the parlour has been removed, and the parlour contains a rubble triangular projection, likely a 19th-century addition with two linked angle fireplaces that heat the service rooms at this end.