Lunt Cottages

Lunt Cottages is a house dating from around 1600, originally part of a solar range that included two parlours with chambers above. It is one of two cross-wings that belonged to a central hall range from the late 15th or early 16th century, which is no longer standing. The other cross-wing is No 2 Lunt Cottages, located opposite. The building has a timber frame that is completely covered in late 17th-century brick and later render, with coursed sandstone foundations. It features a steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and an off-centre large sandstone chimney with two brick diagonal stacks. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, with a brick band on the first floor. The entrance includes a round-headed doorway with a 20th-century fanlight and a glazed door. The ground floor has 20th-century casements, while the first floor has two 2-light casements with wooden lintels. At the rear, there is an unusual semi-circular extension with a hipped roof, a blocked doorway, and two 20th-century casements, all with wooden lintels. Inside, there is late 17th-century panelling on the staircase at the north end, in the ground floor room, and on the chimney breast of the bedroom above. The ceilings feature chamfered and end-stopped beams.