The Lanes

The Lanes is a house dating from around 1520, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It has two storeys and a two-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a long-wall jettied first floor on the east side with exposed joist-ends. The gables are encased in gault brick, while the ground storey walling beneath the jetty is finished in a chequerboard pattern of red and gault brick. The roof is plaintiled, hipped, and gable-ended at both ends, with an axial 16th-century chimney made of red brick.

The house has various mid-19th century casement windows, and the south gable includes late 20th-century mullioned windows. An original five-light chamber window with hollow-chamfered mullions is exposed and glazed. The entrance doorway, dating from the 19th century, features a late 20th-century framed and boarded door. The high-quality timber framing is exposed throughout the building, which has an unusual plan form, including evidence of a cross-entry at the south gable.

An altered entrance doorway has a four-centred arched head with vinescroll-enriched spandrels. Part of the wainscotted cross-entry screen has been repositioned and features rare linenfold carving on both faces. All beams and joists on the ground storey are double-ogee carved. There are back-to-back fireplaces with cambered lintels that are roll-moulded and vinescroll carved. Both rooms have moulded cills from very wide oriel windows on the east side. The open trusses have shallow four-centred arched bracing, and the roof is a complete coupled-rafter construction. A mid-19th century pantiled lean-to outshut is located on the west side. The Lanes is graded II* due to its rarity as a small house of this plan form and its unusually high quality.