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The Queens Arms was situated on Church Lane.  This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.
Listed building details:
Public House. Late C18, incorporating elements of an earlier house, and with Cl9 alterations and additions. Red brick, rising from a shallow stone plinth laid to Flemish bond, with gable chimneys with ornamental caps and Staffordshire blue tile roof coverings. Linear plan, with central entry, and with parallel rear ranges enclosing a narrow yard. Front elevation (south); 2 storeys, 3 bays, with central doorway below a shallow bracketed canopy. Wide storey band, with moulded surround to inn sign set above doorway, as continuation to door surround below. 4-panel door to entrance, flanked by stacked 3-light casement windows beneath segmentally-arched heads. Eaves band concealed by gutters, but clearly expressed on west gable, which has a blocked ground floor opening and a small 2-light attic casement. Beyond north-west corner of gable, a 2-bay range with a central ridge stack and a gablet above each first floor 2-light window. Interior; ground floor alterations to form public house bar areas, but with heavy spine beams and flat joists. Late C19 surrounds to hearths. First floor rooms with beamed ceilings, and one ovolo-moulded spine beam. Attic with lime-ash floor, and single purlin roof Wide-boarded doors and a fragment of late C17 oak panelling. A relatively unaltered example of late C18 vernacular house, which incorporates elements of an earlier dwelling, and which retains much of its early plan, despite its present use as a public house.
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