Lane House And Attached Barn

Lane House and an attached barn, dating back to the early 17th century, with an 19th-century addition to the right. A barn is attached to the left. Construction is of thin-coursed rubble, with dressed quoins and watershot masonry to the 19th-century addition. The roofs are stone slate, incorporating three different roof lines. The house is two storeys high and forms a long range. The original 17th-century part has a single bay featuring a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window, with almost square reveals. The ground floor window has been altered to 2-lights. An inserted doorway has monolithic jambs. The 19th-century addition is taller and has two bays of 16-paned sash windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills. A doorway with monolithic jambs is set between the windows. Stone gutter brackets are present. A stack rises from the ridge of the 17th-century section where it joins the barn, while two stacks are on the ridge of the 19th-century house. The rear elevation features a stair-window with a semicircular arched head, impost blocks and a keystone. Quoins mark the division from the earlier house, which has a single-chamfered light for the stairwell to the left of a 2-light chamfered mullioned window. The barn is five bays long and has a single aisle that breaks forward, incorporating a cart entry within a portal. A large, curved, stop-chamfered wooden lintel, possibly a reused cruck, sits above the cart entry. A doorway in the re-entrant angle, showing the initials "I B" (the Brown family) and the date "1784," has composite jambs and a stop-chamfered surround. A similar doorway at the right-hand end of the aisle displays a 17th-century date. The left gable has a coped gable with kneelers. A rear cart entry, flush with the house, has composite jambs, a monolithic lintel, and a chamfered surround, which has been reduced in size.

Inside the barn, the principal truss has a collar. The 17th-century cell of the house features a painting on the east wall, dated 1689. This painting is framed with columns and an arcaded frieze and displays a biblical passage. The words "Let all bitterness..." are inscribed, followed by the date 1689 and an illustration of a pelican in its piety. Raised plaster letters read "I.W.M.W". The room also contains a fine newel spiral stone stair and elaborate, stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists. It is suggested that the building may have been used as a Nonconformist meeting house after the Act of Toleration in 1689.