Hawthorns

Hawthorns is a lobby-entrance house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has a timber frame, now roughcast rendered, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It originally comprised three bays aligned roughly north-east to south-west, with a central axial chimney stack, characteristic of a lobby-entrance plan. A rear lean-to extension was added in the 18th century. In the early 19th century, the house was extended to the north-east, with a contemporary lean-to at the rear and a double chimney stack, creating a separate cottage. The main house was subsequently divided into two cottages, later re-combined. The building is two stories high. The ground floor has a plain boarded door, a glazed door and three 19th-century cast iron casement windows. The first floor has three 19th-century cast iron casement windows. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside the original house’s ground floor rooms, there are axial beams with plain chamfered details and run-out stops, with the joists plastered to their soffits. The roof has been altered. A notable feature is the presence of combed designs in the plaster on the north-east wall of the original building and its rear extension; these are visible as internal surfaces within the extension, which has been enclosed since the early 19th century, representing a rare survival.