The French Horn Pub was built around 1780 originally as a family manor House. The Oak Frames from how the building was originally constructed came from the hulls of de-commissioned war from The Battle of Trafalgar. Steppingley village stands on high ground, stretching across the centre of the parish, and is small and compact in appearance. The church, rebuilt in 1860 by the Duke of Bedford and the rector, is a building of local sandstone, occupying a commanding position in the centre of the village.

At the bottom of the hill at the east end of the village a lane leads past a few half-timber and brick cottages to Park Farm, a building erected in 1861, round which are traces of an extensive moat. Several model cottages have been built by the Duke of Bedford at either end of the village.

North of the main road to the east of the church is the Methodist chapel, and on the same side, but separated from it by the road leading to the church, is the ‘The French Horn Pub,’ an inn of some antiquity, although refaced with a modern front, while in the yard adjoining on the east is a large old thatched barn now belonging to the inn, but claimed by local tradition as the old tithe barn.