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Date of photo: 2009	Picture source: Google Streetview
The Gidley Arms is now in use a private house. A grade-II listed building, built as a residential property in 1826.
Source: Gary Gilmore
Listed building details:
House, later an inn, now again a house. Stated to have dated beam in roof:- "1826", some C20 internal refitting, large C20 addition at the rear. Coursed and squared local rubble in alternating thick and thin bands, deep eaves, hipped slate roof, lead ridges, very large end roughcast stacks. Plan: symmetrical frontage, central entrance hall with staircase, large drawing room to right running the full depth of the house, dining room to left running to half the depth of the house, behind it a small parlour, kitchen wing at rear rebuilt C20. Exterior: symmetrical 2 storeys, 3 bays, 16-pane sash windows, large to ground floor, slightly smaller on first floor, rubble voussoirs to flat-arch heads. Central door opening, paired C20 glazed doors in a conforming style. Left return with two 2-light wooden mullioned-and-transomed windows. Interior: with some refitting, retains much co-eval joinery including doors, architraves and the dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, moulded handrail and a turned newel at its foot; drawing room and hall with simple Regency plasterwork, cornices and ceiling centres.
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