Restaurant and house, formerly a staging-post on the Great North Road. Early C18. Rendered red brick with an ashlar plinth. Hipped concrete pantile roof with 2 rendered brick gable stacks. 2.1/2 storeys 5 bays, flanked by slightly recessed 2 storey, 2 bay rendered wings with concrete pantiles to the left wing and slates to the right. Both have ashlar coped gables and single brick gable stacks. Ground floor sill and 1st floor bands extending to the flanking wings. Central doorway, panelled door with traceried fanlight, keystone and surround of attached Doric columns and entablature. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes with keystones, with 5 similar sashes and keystones above and 5 similar, smaller, sashes on the top floor. The left wing has 2 glazing bar sashes with keystones, with 2 similar sashes above. The right wing has a single glazing bar sash with keystone, to the right is a blocked window with keystone with 2 blocked openings above, that on the left now containing a wooden slatted opening. (NCC/js)