[2] There is also a minute window looking out onto the courtyard, which opens onto a small room set between floors and is only accessible through a trap-door in what is now a bathroom.

The modern day pub was renowned during the 2010s as a live music venue with a wide variety of bands ranging across many genres, although this has lessened after a change in direction after a refurbishment in 2019.

The name comes from the French, "pieds poudrés" which can be translated as "dusty feet", and was a temporary court set up for the duration of a fair or market to deal with travelers who were not resident in the town.

It was held in the open air under an ancient oak tree, the site of which the Stag and Hounds was built upon.

Although it had not actually met since the abolition of the fair in 1870, an annual proclamation was still read on the last day of September under the portico of the inn.