Cupid's Hill Inn

Cupid's Hill Inn is an early 18th-century inn with an attached stable block, situated at right angles to the road. The building is constructed of painted rubble stone and features a slate roof with a tile ridge. The former inn, located on the left, has an end stack with a brick flue, while the converted stable block on the right has a projecting gable stack with a stone base, raking offsets, and a brick flue. The former inn is two stories plus an attic. The front roof has a flat-headed dormer window with a 3+3 pane casement. The first floor contains three 12-pane hornless sash windows, each with segmental arched heads and stone voussoirs. The central entrance doorway on the ground floor features a 20th-century boarded door. To the left of the entrance is a late 17th-century 2-light transom with a segmental voussoired arch and keystone. To the right, there is a small projecting canted bay window with a stone slab roof and 3+3+3 paned fixed lights.

The present inn, which was formerly the stable block, has a lower roof line. Its ground floor windows are segmental arched with keystones, including a 3+3 pane fixed light on the left and a 6+6 pane fixed light on the right. The first floor features a 4-pane horned sash window. The north elevation has twin gables facing the roadway. The gable of the former stable on the left has a projecting stack, while the gable of a late 18th-century parallel range on the right has openings with cambered stone voussoirs. The ground floor includes an entrance doorway with a 4-panel door and a 16-pane hornless sash window, with a similar window above on the first floor.

At the time of the resurvey, the early 18th-century inn was unoccupied but retained a well-preserved interior that remains largely unaltered. Entry into the larger of the two ground floor rooms reveals a gable fireplace and, to the right, a boarded door leading to the stairs. Former arched openings, now blocked, can be seen on the back wall. The smaller room on the left has a boarded half door. The first floor is partitioned, and the attic consists of two bays with framed trusses ceiled at the collar. The entrance to the present inn is directly from the road into a passage, featuring a four-panel door to the bar on the left and a half door with a 3-pane light and a partition with a 6-pane window on the right. The passage leads to a back kitchen and, beyond that, an arched cellar.