Lunds

This is an early 17th-century house, altered in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with roughcast rendering on the front, finished with brick, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays aligned roughly east to west, with a north-facing aspect. A large chimney stack is located in the second bay from the east, and there is another external chimney stack on the west gable end. The rear elevation has been altered in the 20th century to create a T-shaped plan. A further extension was built around 1968 in the southwest corner, and there are single-story lean-to extensions to the east and southeast, one roofed with red clay pantiles and one with red clay plain tiles. The house has a single story with attics.

On the ground floor, there are four casement windows from the 19th or 20th century, plus two more in gabled dormers with 19th or 20th-century bargeboards. Some timber framing is exposed internally, and there are jowled posts. The axial beams are plain-chamfered with run-out stops. A studded partition was removed between the two western ground floor rooms, which were originally the parlour and hall. The original chimney stack consisted of a single hearth facing west, which formed a lobby-entrance to the north. This stack has been reduced to accommodate a coal-burning grate, and a 20th-century hearth has been built back to back with it, using reused 16th-century bricks. The room to the east of the stack was originally an unheated service room and retains two windows in the rear wall, featuring diamond mullions each, now fitted with 20th-century leaded glass and enclosed by the 20th-century rear extension.

The building’s original plan incorporated a lobby-entrance between the service room and the hall. The survival of the diamond mullions suggests the house was originally a low-status dwelling, likely built no later than 1630.