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Picture source: Susan Ellis

The Horn was situated at 2 Castle Street. This grade-II listed pub closed in 2021.

A plan has been submitted to revitalise this pub. A private applicant has applied to preserve the ground floor for hospitality use, while converting the first floor into three one-bed flats.

Colin Price (September 2024)

Listed building details:

C16, much altered and modernised. 2 storeys. Stucco over timber-framing. Tiled roof. 5 Yorkshire sashes on 1st floor. Late C19 shop frames to ground floor windows to left. Early C19 reeded surround and band below bracketed cornice on No 2; mullion and transom (wood) windows. Corner entrance now a window. 3 window return to St Mary's Butts, casements on 1st floor, glazing bar sashes on ground floor; applied timbering with quadrilobe decorative band over 1st floor (C20).

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