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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Wheatsheaf was situated on Free Street. This grade-II listed pub closed c1912.

Listed building details:

Once the Wheatsheaf Inn, now three houses. Late-medieval timber-framed hall with two-storeyed crosswing, with early C18 extension (End Cottage) and re-cladding, with minor features of the late C19 and C20. Front wall of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, plinth, cambered openings (arch in the gable), remains of rubbed flat arches to two windows now replaced by a cambered arch to one window, 1st floor band to part, deep eaves fascia on brick dentils to the south side; north wall with exposed brick-nogged frame, other walls of painted brickwork. Tile roof, half-hipped at the north end, with large middle gable (to crosswing), and higher roof to the south side ending in a gable. Large hall with inserted 1st floor and fireplace (c1600), with crosswing having a gabled front masking a once-jettied 1st floor, and a south side extension of the early C18 with later alterations to the fenestration; west front elevation of two storeys (centre with attic), 3.2.1. windows. Casements, the south side with sashes, including a splayed bay. Two plain doorways, with C20 hipped tiled canopies on posts. The interior of Middle Cottage indicates the medieval form; the former jettied upper floor, the gabled cross wing, and the insertion of fire-place and upper floor to the former hall. End cottage has an oak staircase.

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Picture source: David Fisher