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The Greyhound was situated at 17 High Street. This is a late 15th century grade-II listed building - "An open hall house with a central hearth and no chimney." Now in private residential use. This pub closed prior to WWII to become a newsagents shop.

Listed building details:

Town house. Late C15, with C16/C17 wing. Rectangular timber framing with arch braces, jettied over rendered ground-floor; gabled old tile roof; brick ridge stack. L-plan with rear right wing. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plank door to left passage: central late C19 four-panelled (2 glazed) door adjoins C20 window. Late C19 three-pane horned sash to right and C20 first-floor casements. C16/C17 rear wing of one-storey and attic, one-bay range with rear gable wall of rectangular timber framing. Interior: chamfered ogee-stopped beam and chamfered firebeam to left; central stud partition, with cavetto-moulded four-centred doorway; chamfered beam to right. 3-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins and curved windbraces.

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