The Black Ox

The Black Ox is a former inn that has been converted into a house. It features three window bays and stands three storeys tall, with a pebble-dash exterior and slate gabled roofs that overhang at the eaves. The two left-hand bays are set back, while an advanced gabled crosswing is positioned to the right. There are rendered chimneys at both ends of the building. The structure has a plinth and plain flat dripstones above 12-pane horned sash windows throughout. The upper windows of the two left bays break the eaves beneath small gables that are bargeboarded and slated. To the left of the second window, there is a doorway with a 19th-century slate gabled hood, featuring a wide 19th-century door that has three chamfered panels in the upper section and a tongue-and-grooved lower section. The left gable end is rendered and has 19th-century bargeboards. The front of the building is finished with cobbles and flagstones. The rear features a roughcast wall and a rear wing to the right.

Inside, the entrance hall is laid with small red and black quarry tiles arranged in a diamond pattern. There are double inner doors that may have been half-glazed and are deeply panelled. The walls have painted wooden dado panels. To the right, there is a wide half-glazed door leading into a shop, which has two fielded panels in the lower third. The shop features three rough beams and a tongued and grooved ceiling in the middle section, with a similar floor and dado panelling as the hall. A massive chimney with a 20th-century fireplace is located on the right-hand wall, and half-glazed panels separate the room from the corridor.