Loundes

Loundes is a house dating from the 16th to early 17th century, built in two phases, with the parlour end on the right being a later addition. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. The house is two storeys high and has a three-cell layout. There are four mid-20th century casement windows with small panes, and a modern boarded and battened door where a cross-entry would have been. Inside, there is an internal stack with a square red brick shaft from the mid-20th century and a lean-to addition on the left gable end. The interior has been modernised, but the hall and parlour chambers still show intact studding and original window openings. The hall has plain joists, while the parlour features an axial bridging beam with ogee stop-chamfers, with the joists concealed. The stack may date from the same period as the parlour end, possibly from the early 17th century.