Dunromin the Gables

This is a house, formerly a public house, with an attached barn, now divided into two dwellings. The main part of the house dates to the early 16th century, with a floor and stack inserted in the early 17th century, and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with pantiled roofs.

Originally, the structure comprised an open hall of two bays, with a lower three-bay cross wing extending to the rear to form an L-shaped plan. A stack was inserted into the cross passage. The house is one storey and attic in height, with the cross wing being two storeys.

The entrance is positioned within the cross passage, to the right of the main range, featuring a boarded door with a hoodboard. To the left of the entrance is a three-light transomed casement window, largely with leaded glass and a hoodboard, alongside a two-light gabled dormer window. On the ridge, at the lower end of the hall, is a large axial ridge stack. The cross wing to the right has a ground floor four-light casement window and first-floor paired two-light glazing bar casements, with a pentice board. The left gable end features a clay lump and pantiled lean-to addition, with a transomed three-light part-opening leaded casement window to the front, a similar window in the attic, and hoodboards. Exposed purlins are visible. A stack has been added to the right return, and a lean-to outshut extends from the rear bay of the cross wing.

At the rear of the building are two-light casements. The gable end of the cross wing shows shaped brackets to the plates, exposed purlins, and pentice boards. The main range features a boarded door and a two-light dormer.

Inside, the timber frame is largely concealed. The hall has an inserted stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer, a stop-chamfered post between two original service doorways, and edge-halved scarf joints in the wall plates. An open truss has been removed. The cross wing displays close studding, large curved and reverse curved arched braces in the walling, braced tie beams with pegs for crown posts and downward braces in closed trusses, a 17th-century leaded window in a former open truss, and three-light diamond mullioned window openings ceiled above the tie beams. A projecting 20th-century brick porch with a half-glazed door serves as a link to a partially converted barn.

The barn, dating from the late 16th century, was altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded, with a steeply pitched pantiled roof. It has six or seven bays, with a half-glazed door and a canted bay window to the front. Central double doors, incorporating a stable door, are positioned to the right, and an inserted stack is towards the left. The right end and rear are weatherboarded, with a stable door and two-light casements. Internally, the barn has full height studding with straight arched braces in the walling, an inserted floor, braced tie beams, lower butt purlins, and upper clasped purlins with arched braces from principals to cambered collars.

The property was formerly known as The Old Fox Public House.