Welcome Sailor Public House (EHER 38285)

A late 16th or early 17th century public house. It is built from rendered brick and timber framing, which may date to around 1570 when it is said the pub was rebuilt. The roofs are covered with plain tile roof. The building is two storeys with an attic and a cellar, and has several rear extensions.

September 1976. Grade II listed. A late 16th or early 17th century public house. It is built from rendered brick, but has a rear first floor wall of rendered timber-framing. The roofs are covered with plain tile roof. The building is two storeys with an attic and a cellar. The ground floor has an off-centre canted bay window. The south-east corner is canted at ground-floor level with a triangular sloping soffit above. It has a mid 19th century public house front comprising a fascia, four pilasters and two windows with leaded light glazing wrapping around to the south-east frontage. The south-west elevation has a tall single-storey extension in white weatherboarding, and the rear elevation has a patch of old decorative plaster and smaller black weatherboarded structure at right-angles. Behind the main range is a monopitched single-storey red-brick building (now a bar) and a stable block, part red-brick and part timber-framed. The main block was probably constructed with a ground floor of brick with timber framing above. The timber structure is of good quality. The building was early known as Wrenches and thought to have been rebuilt in around 1570; the structure could be of this date. <1> See photos <2>.