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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Castle was situated at 77 High Street. This grade-II listed  pub closed in 2018 and planning permission has been applied for to convert the premises for residential use.

Listed building details:

House, now public house. C14-c.1600. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Left crosswing late C14 with C19 external stack to left, right crosswing mid-C16, extended to rear c.1600, with axial stack. Middle range c.1600 with axial stack at right end, on site of former open hall. 2 storeys. Both crosswings were formerly jettied and gabled to the street, now with a continuous facade incised in imitation of ashlar, the roof of the middle range oversailing those of the crosswings, with gablets. 4 C19 sashes with marginal lights on ground floor and 3 on first floor. C20 door and C20 oriel window under shared canopy. Main stack has 6 grouped diagonal shafts, stack in right wing has 3 grouped diagonal shafts. Much of the frame is exposed internally. Stop-chamfered and moulded beams. The right ground-floor room has a wall-painting above the fireplace depicting the miraculous draught of fishes, on each side of which is an hourglass, cherub's head, flower and skull, and a pair of crouching lions with swags above, inscribed 'The houer runneth and Time flieth as flower fadeth, so man dieth, sic transit gloria' (restored c.1700).

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