The Lane House

The Lane House is a late 16th-century farmhouse, later adapted as a private house. It was extended in the mid-17th century with a rear stairwing and brick chimneys, and further extended in the 19th century to the east. The house is constructed with a timber frame, with painted brick infill, a painted brick eastern extension, and steep roofs covered in old red tiles. It presents an irregular T-shaped plan, facing south, with a cross range of service buildings at the west end and a gabled stairwing at the rear. The front has five flush casement windows with small panes on each floor. The main entrance is through a boarded door, beneath a gabled porch, leading into the eastern extension. The original house comprises three cells, with an internal chimney set to the north side to accommodate a stair within the entrance lobby. The timber framing is wide-spaced and storey-height, with a narrow bay for the chimney. The hall features a right-hand end of the chimney lintel jointed into a vertical post, suggesting an earlier timber-framed chimney was replaced by the present brick chimney, likely about a century after the house’s initial construction. A fine brick chimney with two octagonal shafts is located at the southeast corner and is probably contemporary with the stairwing, and likely dates from a period when former service rooms were converted into a parlour and the kitchen at the northwest end was reroofed with a catslide roof.