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The Dun Cow was situated at 1 Church Street. This grade-II listed pub is now used as a holiday cottage.

Listed building details:

Public house and stable, now all public house with mounting blocks at front and rear. Mid C18. Painted rough render with pointed ashlar dressings; right return thinly-rendered limestone rubble with brick patching; roof French tiles with C20 brick chimneys. Boulder mounting blocks, that at front painted. 2 storeys, 8 bays. 3 left-bays have 4-panel door at centre in panelled reveals and Tuscan doorcase with flat pilasters and large cornice; painted low-relief panel above showing cow and C17-style figures. Renewed windows in flanking bays have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; C20 glazing on ground floor, late C19 sashes above with lintels at eaves. 3-light C20 window on ground floor in fourth bay; plainer window on first floor in fifth. Blocked stable arch in sixth bay, with window inserted; lower right end bays have boarded door recessed in partly-blocked arch, and C20 window in similar first-floor arched opening. End chimneys on C20 external stacks, and ridge chimney at right of third bay; 2 lower ridges over right 5 bays. Large rear full-width one-storey outshut rising to eaves under catslide roof. Mounting blocks in front of eighth bay, and beside rear entrance of sixth bay. Interior shows dogleg stair in rear outshut with moulded ramped handrail on column-and-vase balusters. First floor has one C18 cupboard with 2 fielded panels, and some doors with 4 similar panels.

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