The following text is from the original listed building designation:
THE MARKET PLACE 1. 5282 No 3 (The Bear Inn Public House TR 0161 SE 3/320 II
2. Late Victorian front. Red brick with stone dressings. Hipped end of clay tiled roof to road. Two storeys. Two stone-framed cross casements on first floor and one three-light below, alongside door with tall oblong fanlight in stone surround.
Interior; There are two separate timber traded buildings, the earlier one of medeival period towards the front. This rests on a deep flint-walled basement with stone dressings including part of a pointed-arched doorway. Into this a brick barrel vaulted storage area has been inserted, probably in early C18. A few beams are visible in the upper part of the house.
The back building is L-shaped and probably of C16 date. The roof is inaccessible but there are jowled posts and arched braces. A large chimney stack with inglenook seems to have been inserted; the main 'ream. of the back parleys runs into the brickwork. Some pleasant Victorian painted glass doors.
Listing NGR: TR0154161395

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.