The Limes

The Limes is a house located on Debenham High Street, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century for the front range, with a 17th-century wing at the rear and an 18th-century facade. The building is timber framed, with the facade covered in roughcast render and a plain tiled roof. The rear wing is plastered and has a pantiled roof. The house has two storeys and an attic in the front range, featuring seven sash windows with glazing bars.

There is a lobby entry with a one-storey flat-roofed porch that has a cornice, and a doorcase with a bracketed cornice leading to an old eight-panel raised and fielded door. A flat-roofed dormer is present as well. The chimney stack has a heavy shaft with four rebuilt flues arranged in a sawtooth pattern.

Inside, an upper room showcases a 17th-century plaster ceiling with moulded cross-bands and a running foliage design, featuring a Fleur-de-lys or Tudor rose motif in the center of each division. This room also contains an early to mid-18th-century fireplace with an eared surround, a frieze with a bolection profile, and a cornice. An adjacent room has an early 19th-century moulded fireplace with corner roundels. A first-floor room to the right has a coved ceiling, likely from the 18th century. The house features many 18th-century two-panel doors. The roof over the front range includes clasped purlins and straight plank wind-bracing, while the rear wing has an oak newel stair beside the stack.