14, St Austin'S Lane

No. 14 St Austin's Lane is a house dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, with later alterations from the late 18th century. It features a timber frame with a red Flemish-bond brick front and a clay pantiled gambrel roof that is positioned at right angles to the building's frontage. The house has two storeys with attics.

The exterior includes a plain parapet and rendering on the lower part of the ground floor. On the second floor, there is one square blind window opening and one flush square double-hung sash window with small panes, both situated under rubbed brick arches. The first floor has one flush double-hung sash window and a similar square window, also with small panes, both under sharply raking rubbed brick arches. The ground floor features a large flush double-hung sash window with small panes and a raking arch head, along with a simple architraved doorcase topped with a flat hood and a 20th-century six-panel door. Part of the old gabled steep pitched roof remains visible behind the gambrel.

Inside, the layout resembles a cross-wing structure, with a former partition separating the front and rear rooms. The timber shows wavy patterns with wide stud spacing and jowlless posts. The side walls are open-framed, with straight braces to the posts on both sides of the ground-floor front room. The underside of the jetty bressumer displays mortices for a former off-centre moulded mullioned window, indicating a previous cross-passage under the southwest part of the wing. The rear room on the ground floor has a large five-light diamond mullioned window in the northeast flank. The floor joists feature centre tenons with soffit shoulders. There are remnants of a halved and bridled scarf joint with a vertical peg and under-squinted abutment visible in the house. The first-floor rear room shows evidence of a rear door, likely for a garderobe. A heavy steep raking arch brace supports the tie beam. The gambrel roof is a later addition to create an attic space. Notably, a reused sail stock from Ramsey Windmill serves as a wall plate, and a ship's mast has been repurposed in the rear wall. A corner cupboard with serpentine shelves is also present, likely from another location. This building is probably the former 'service' cross-wing of a hall house to the southwest.