The Laleston Inn

The Laleston Inn is a building constructed of stone rubble with painted ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring a ridge stack on the right and an end stack on the left. The main facade consists of two storeys with a three-window arrangement of square-headed casement windows that have sills. The first floor features shallow stone voussoirs, while the ground floor has lintels. There is a shallow cross bay on the center left of the facade. The gable end, which has a ball finial, projects forward and includes two-light windows with moulded surrounds, hollow chamfered mullions, and square hoodmoulds—two on the ground floor and one above, with small lights in the returns. Between the two ground floor windows on the right, there is a gabled porch made of dressed stone, which has a replaced wooden door with older metal fittings. The right gable end features a window with a heavy square hood mould under a relieving arch and a blocked arched opening on the ground floor. The northwest wall has blocked features, and there is a rear cross wing with an end stack that shares the same roof level as the main facade, along with 20th-century extensions. A stone sett pavement is located in front of the building.

Inside, the inn retains a fireplace in the former hall on the right, which has a plain chamfered timber bressummer. There is a sideboard in the style of the 16th century, possibly incorporating original work, now located in a recess. To the left of the fireplace, a winding stone stair with a small light and a cross slab roof can be found. The projecting front bay provides light for both the hall and the inner room, separated by a plank and muntin partition between the two windows, with a beam that still has slots in place. The ceilings are supported by broad chamfered beams with round stops and plain square joists. The fireplace in the former inner room on the left has a plain chamfered and stopped bressummer, with small niches in the jambs. There is a pointed arched doorway to the left leading to the northwest wing, which has a thick early wall. A central doorway between two windows is blocked. Additionally, there is a square-headed doorway to the east cross wing, which features a wide open fireplace with an arched timber bressummer, a former oven on the left, and a niche on the right, along with a curved flight of stone steps to the right.