Roebucks

Roebucks is a house dated 1633, built for Edmund and Grace Tattershall. It is constructed of coursed squared stone, rendered, with a stone slate roof. The house follows a through-passage plan and has two storeys and four bays, with a rear wing.

The front of the house has bays one and two projecting with gables. A two-storey porch is situated in bay three. Double-chamfered mullion windows are present throughout. A continuous cyma-moulded dripmould runs along the ground floor. Bay one has a tall, two-light, flat-faced mullion window to the left of a C19 porch concealing a plain stone surround doorway. To the right of the porch is an eight-light window with a king mullion. Above, on the first floor, each bay has a five-light window under a hoodmould with spiral stops. A gutter spout is positioned in the valley between the bays. The porch has a chamfered plinth, a doorway with fluted jambs, imposts, a fluted ogee lintel, and a datestone above. A cross-window with a spiral-stopped hoodmould and gutter spout is on the first floor, with stone benches and an inner, Tudor-arched, chamfered, quoined doorway with a nail-studded board door inside the porch. To the left of the porch is a two-light window with a blocked arched light above. Bay four has a blocked six-light window, now masked by a modern ramp, and two two-light windows above, one with flat-faced mullions. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping are present to all gables. A renewed ridge stack is located to the left of the porch, alongside a shouldered external stack to the left end.

The rear of the house features chamfered mullion windows. In bays one and two, there is a Tudor-arched, chamfered, quoined doorway with a nail-studded board door to the through-passage. A two-light window has been converted into a door to the left, and a blocked two-light window is to the left of a blocked three-light, flat-faced mullion window. Two two-light windows are positioned above. The wing projecting from bay three has a blind arched firelight with sunk spandrels to the ground floor, right, as well as shaped kneelers, coping, and a corniced gable stack. The right return has a gutter spout at floor level, a two-light window to the ground floor right, and a similar opening with a 16-pane sash above. The left return has a four-light window to each floor. Bay four has a six-light window, now reduced to three and with small-pane glazing, and a three-light double-chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould above.

The left return has a blocked two-light window to each floor to the right of the stack, and a 16-pane sash with a brick stack above at eaves to the left of the stack.

The interior through-passage has doors on both sides, with the door to the left having a stop-chamfered, quoined surround. A room on the left of the through-passage contains an inglenook with a stop-chamfered bressummer and heck post, an inserted stone fireplace with a chamfered, cambered arch, a deep lintel, and a moulded mantelshelf. To the left of the fireplace is a splayed recess with a round-arched light, stop-chamfered spine beams, and remains of a plank and muntin heck screen. A first-floor room to the right of the through-passage features a king-post truss with V-struts and braces to the ridge piece, trenched purlins, rafters, and a continuous mortice in the soffit of the tie-beam.