The Black Lion Public House (EHER 37324)

15th century and later hall house.

Hall house with two crosswings of the 15th century and later extended in the 19th and 20th century. It is timber-framed, plastered between exposed framing, with the roofs tiled and slated. The hall and jettied north-east crosswing is 15th century. The south-west crosswing was early 17th century, with a chimney stack with two diagonal shafts at the south-west end of hall, rebuilt in the 19th century. Photograph taken by RCHM in about 1920 shows that at that time the framing was lathed and plastered externally, later stripped, with much replacement framing in front wall of hall. There is a blocked window with three ovolo mullions in the upper south-west wall. The house has jowled storey posts, tiebeams straight in south-west crosswing, cambered in the north-east crosswing, but the roofs were inaccessible. The inserted floor in the hall is late 16th century. RCHM 17. <1> See: <2>