Danceys

House, originally partly of a non-domestic form, dating from the 16th century, with a 3-bay main range and a cross-wing extended and altered in later periods. The house is timber-framed, now rendered, with a brick plinth, and has plain tile roofs. The garden front features a 3-bay central lobby-entry range with an added end stack. A stair tower is located to the rear, flanked by a two-storey extension to the left and a single-storey extension to the right. The cross-wing, under a hipped roof and with a central stack, runs back from the road, forming an L-shaped plan and incorporates a 20th-century extension to the left. The house is two storeys throughout. On the garden front, the 3-bay range has two canted bays with tile roofs. An open porch, integrated with the right-hand bay, contains a 4-panel door, and there is a 2-light casement window to the left. The first floor has 20th-century 3-light casement windows. The end wall of the cross-wing has an 18th-century 3-light leaded casement window on the ground floor, and a 20th-century 3-light casement above. The street front displays 20th-century casement windows and a 4-panel door within a lean-to porch. The flank wall of the cross-wing reveals three 18th-century 3-light casement windows and one 20th-century casement. Inside the 3-bay range, exposed framing consists of a pair of longitudinal beams with tongue and jewel stops, resting upon an inglenook with chamfered jambs, a chamfered cambered mantelbeam, and salt niches. The cross-wing’s unusual plan is not typical of a domestic layout, with the wide bay closest to the street being an addition. The remaining section is divided into four unequal bays, two narrow bays to the front and two wider bays to the rear, with a stack inserted within the second narrow bay. The upper part of the cross wing, including tie beams, was removed during 18th-century heightening, though some lightly smoke-blackened rafters remain in the roof. The ground floor's two rear bays form a single large room with hollow-chamfered central posts, a wide-chamfered beam, centre-tenoned joists with housed soffits stencilled with Tudor roses, and a shutter groove with a central peg in the end wall. The two narrower bays were originally divided by stud partitions. On the first floor, posts 2 and 4 (within the 4-bay section) are chamfered with asymmetrical stops at their feet.