The Bush Inn PH

The Bush Inn is a thatched, two-storey public house with medieval origins, featuring a five-window range aligned on an east-west axis. The exterior is made of coursed limestone rubble and includes two axial rubble stacks. The thatched roof has two eyebrow dormers on the front elevation, while the eastern end is hipped. The front elevation shows the building's evolution from a two-cell, late medieval dwelling, with later cells added at both the eastern and western ends. The masonry of these additions meets the original cells with a straight joint. There is a modern gabled rubble porch over the original two-centred doorway. The early central section has six 19th-century, multi-paned, two-light casements, while the later cells at the ends have modern windows. At the rear, there are various single-storey modern additions, including one on the western end constructed with matching stonework and featuring slate, tiled, and flat roofs.

Originally designed with a hearth passage plan, the inn has a hall and outer room, with later cells added at either end, likely in the 19th century. Access is through an unchamfered, two-centred doorway on the front elevation, leading into the outer room, which retains an opposed doorway on the north side and has a pennant flagged floor. A heavy central beam with a narrow chamfer and run-out stops is presumably an 18th-century replacement. The half beams at the eastern and western ends of the room have broad chamfers and hollow stops with fillet. A plain chamfered, two-centred doorway on the eastern side leads to the hall cell. The western cell has no exposed features and appears to be of 19th-century construction. The central hall cell features a substantial 16th-century fireplace at the western end, with a projecting, plain chamfered timber bressumer supported by timber corbels. To the north of the fireplace, there are lateral entry stone stairs within an outshut, topped with a cross slab roof. The hall cell retains ceiling beams of heavy section, with girders that have broad chamfers and hollow stops with fillet, while the joists are also broadly chamfered with diagonal stops. The later eastern cell does not retain any exposed features of interest.