The Limes

The Limes is a house located on Therfield Church Lane, dating from the late 16th century with extensions from the 17th century. It underwent further extensions and alterations around 1800 and later in the 19th century. The building has a timber frame that is rendered, with red brick additions and some weatherboarding, topped with tiled roofs.

The front range has five bays and is two stories high, featuring a lobby entry. The entrance is located in the second bay from the right, which has a later projecting gabled porch. The right bay includes a full-height canted bay with sash windows, while to the left of the porch, there is another canted bay on the ground floor, along with an entrance that has a bracketed hood and a two-light casement window. The first floor has three flush frame glazing bar sashes in the center and left, and to the left of center, there is an original small two-light timber ovolo moulded mullioned window frame. The right end of the building is roughcast with sashes and a steeply pitched roof.

At the rear, there is an early 19th-century parallel red brick range with three bays facing the garden. This section has a recessed central entrance with a later bracketed hood, flanking recessed glazing bar sashes with cambered heads on the first floor, and end stacks. To the right and slightly set back from this block is a later 19th-century addition that fills out a large rectangle. This addition features a ground floor made of brick with French doors and a two-light casement window, while the first floor is weatherboarded with three flush frame glazing bar sashes and has a slightly lower ridge than the earlier block. It projects further than the original block and has a large stack in the valley between the original and late 19th-century blocks.

Attached to the left end of the front are outbuildings that were formerly stabling and have been altered in the 20th century. Inside, the house features a large scantling to the exposed frame, stop-chamfered fireplace lintels, bearers, and joists, as well as exposed mullioned window frames. There is an 18th-century panelled room to the right on the ground floor with a moulded cornice, and a chamfered brick fireplace on the first floor.