The White Heart

The White Heart is a two-storey building featuring a partially preserved original square panel timber frame with later brick nogging on the south front. The other walls are made of rubble, and the east gable is weatherboarded. It has stone tile roofs, with a projecting rubble stack on the west gable and a rubble eaves stack on the north wall. The building includes modern doors and windows, with a continuous row of first-floor casements facing south. In the south-west corner, there is a small single-storey rubble block that was formerly a shop.

Next to the main building is a detached block made of rubble and slate with brick dressings, which was formerly the smithy or stable serving the inn. The forge, bellows, and cooling trough are all still in place.

The structure contains some 16th-century wall framing, including chamfered door frames with mason's mitres and an original central truss. The west room features a range, a bread oven, and a large stone block that may have served as a stew-warmer, complete with two fire holes for pans. On the upper floor, there is a large room with an external entrance and an oven hob grate.