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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Corbet Arms was situated on the High Street. This grade-II listed pub has now been converted into a Post Office and office block.

Listed building details:

Inn. Late C18 and early C19. Red brick with plain tile roofs. Front range consisting of early C19 block to left and late C18 block to right. Early C19 ballroom at rear. Left-hand block: three storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice. C20 parapeted gable end to left with stone coping. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left, integral brick end stack to right and integral brick end stack to right. Three-window front; tripartite sashes with gauged -brick heads and painted stone cills. Second-floor casements. Entrance between first and second windows from right, consisting of pair of doors with three beaded flush panels (top panels glazed), beaded flush-panelled reveals, rectangular overlight with radial fan, reeded architrave with circular corner paterae, and frieze and moulded cornice. Tuscan porch with granite columns (probably a mid-to late C19 replacement) supporting frieze and triangular pediment with blocking course. Wooden inn sign above supported by wrought-iron bracket, Carriageway to left with stone hinge blocks, pair of boarded gates with spearhead tops and name board above. Blocked former side doorway in carriageway consisting of quarter-round unfluted Greek Doric columns supporting frieze and segmental radial fanlight. Right- hand block: two storeys and attic. Painted moulded (probably stone) eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with chamfered stone copings and moulded stone kneelers. Pair of hipped eaves dormers with 2-light wooden casements. Four bays; plate-glass sashes with gauged-brick heads and painted stone cills. Remains of former early C19 railed enclosure in front of each block, consisting of sandstone plinths and four short sections of spearhead railings with urn finials to standards. Early C19 Ballroom block adjoining at rear. Red brick, painted on ground floor. Plain tile roof. Two storeys. Toothed-brick eaves cornice. External brick end stack to right. Five bays; first-floor glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and lintels. Ground-floor 2-light segmental-headed window in second bay from right, elliptical-arched boarded door to right and three pairs of elliptical-arched boarded coach-house doors to left. Two-storey hipped-roofed stair tower and porch projecting to right with toothed-brick eaves cornice. Entrance with gauged-brick elliptical arch, pair of doors, each with three beaded flush panels, and overlight. Lower one-bay block set back to left with first-floor glazing-bar sash. Two-storey link block to front range. Interior of hotel: early C19 cantilevered dog-leg staircase with curving flights, open string, turned balusters (2 per tread), sweeping handrail, and wreathed newel with columnar foot newel post. Doors with six raised and fielded panels and panelled reveals. Interior of ballroom not inspected but moulded cornice noted. The porch might formerly have been of a baseless Doric order because although the later granite columns have bases the early C19 pilasters behind to not. A pair of sandstone columns (not included on this list) standing on a patch of waste ground at the rear of the hotel might have been the former porch columns. Their bases are not visible as they are embedded in the earth.

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Picture source: David Gray