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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Eight Bells was situated on the High Street. The property is grade-II listed dating from the 15th century. Originally a house, it was a pub from the 18th century and closed in the 1980s.

Listed building details:

Range of houses, sometime Inn and shops. C15. Timber framed and part exposed with plaster infill, otherwise tile hung, part painted, on red brick ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with half-hipped roof at right stacks to rear centre right and clustered to centre left, with 3 hipped dormers. The former Lloyds Bank to end left with 4 and 3 light leaded casements on 1st floor, and boarded door and 80 paned window to ground floor extension, with open passageway to right (with cusped woodwork). Former Eight Bells to centre, with 4 lights mullioned and 3 light mullioned and transomed windows on 1st floor, 4 light casement and paired glazing bar sashes to right on ground floor, with half-glazed doors to left with flight of steps, and to centre right. Shuttered basement Spways with paired sashes and 3 light casement on 1st floor and tripartite sash on ground floor, with projecting bay to right, the upper section glazed and bracketed out, with half-glazed door in left side. The basement with boarded door with grille, louvred side opening, and water tank with spout set flush with wall, said to have been a lock-up at some stage. Projecting hipped framed rear wings to whole range. Although of more than 1 build, the interlacing tenures give the range same unity.

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