Royal Head P.H.

The Royal Head Public House is a 17th-century timber-framed building with a lobby entry, featuring later alterations from the 19th century. It has been significantly extended to the right during the 19th century. The building showcases a long, black and white square panelled frontage, standing two stories tall with three windows on each floor, and includes an added shopfront on the ground floor. The left section of the building 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 center of the right section. The eaves are wide boarded on the left and have a dentil eaves band on the right.

The 17th-century part has flush frame sash windows of varying sizes; the first-floor windows are small pane, 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 sash windows, two of which are fixed glazed, while the windows in the 19th-century section are recessed. The shopfront on the right has been altered and includes 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, and there are casement and sash windows along with a red brick extension beyond. The rear of the building has modern extensions. Originally, a large yard was enclosed by another range of buildings, as indicated on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.

Inside, the hall, which now serves 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 includes a rubble triangular projection, likely a 19th-century addition, which houses two linked angle fireplaces that heat the service rooms at this end.