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The Plough was situated on West End and is now used as a private residence. A grade-II listed building.

From The Good Pub Guide 1983:

The civilised and old-fashioned atmosphere is what appeals to readers here: low ochre ceilings, antique furniture, heavy red tablecloths on the tables in the small red-carpeted saloon - even the little public bar is carpeted. At lunchtime bar food includes onion soup (90p), home-made mackerel or chicken liver pate (£1), a variety of omelettes (£1.50), smoked salmon sandwiches (£1.50) and home-made pork, chicken or game pie with salad (£1.50). In the evenings, besides pate or soup (£1) there might be smoked trout (£2), smoked salmon (£2.50), game, chicken or sole Mornay (£3), cuts from the cold table (£4) and a roast (£6), with home-made puddings (£1); also a separate restaurant. Morland Bitter and Best are tapped straight from the cask in a back room. Outside, you might find a horse or two tied up in the asphalted yard behind the black and white timbered building; in summer there are white slatted benches and chairs out here among tubs of flowers. The pub is alone on a quiet road among fields.

Listed building details:

Cottage, now public house. Late C15, altered and extended late C19. Timber frame, painted brick infill; part brick. Old tile gabled roofs. L-plan of 3x2 framed bays, with extensions on north and west. 2 storeys. 2 large chimneys, that on the extension has tall clay pots. C19 casement windows, C19 sash windows to extension. Entrance (east) front: irregular, scattered windows. Gable projecting on right with small gabled projection on ground floor left side. 2-light window first floor, small 2-light window ground floor. Left hand part; one small 2-light window on first floor, one fixed window with small panes and shutters in left of ground floor, half-glazed entrance door on right, near internal angle. Interior: some timber frame exposed on first floor.

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