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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Bird In Hand was situated on Stone Street. This grade-II listed pub was situated behind tea rooms. An ale house and lodging house, it closed c1914.

Listed building details:

House, later alehouse and common lodging house, now shop. C16 and C18 cladding. Timber-frame on cement plinth with weatherboarded ground-floor to front, tile-hung above. Some exposed timber-framing on left return front with tile-hung above and in gable. Plain tiled roof. Tall ribbed brick stack to right of centre and end projecting brick stack to left. 2 storeys. Paired sashes on first floor and shop front with central half-glazed door and paired octagonal shop fronts flanking. Right-hand part of this building is obscured by lower C19 block of Waterloo House (not listed). Interior: Substantial evidence of timber-framing. Possible inserted stack with heavy wooden bressummer.

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