Denne And Projecting Walls

Denne is a house with a core dating from the 16th century or earlier, which was refronted in the late 18th century. It has a timber-framed origin and is clad with galleted ragstone, with extensions in tuck-pointed red brick. The roof is plain tiled and the building consists of two parallel ranges.

The entrance front features two storeys set on a ragstone plinth, with three gauged brick arches on the ground floor. Above, there are four glazing bar sash windows with louvred shutters on the first floor and three on the ground floor, all with gauged heads. The door, located to the centre left, has moulded panels and a circular central panel, topped with a traceried semi-circular fanlight and a pediment supported by fluted pilasters.

To the left, there is a projecting brick wall approximately 7 feet high with a boarded gateway, extending about 20 metres. A wall on the right projects about 10 metres and is set on a ragstone base. The rear wing is partially clad in galleted ragstone.

Inside, there are reeded moulded doorways and modillion cornices, although much of this has been restored in the late 20th century. The interior also features keyed segmental doorways, a bolection moulded fireplace, and a half-landing dog leg stair with iron-twist pattern turned balusters and turned baluster newels, along with scrolled tread-ends. The rear range has a 16th-century clasped purlin roof, with reused smoke-blackened timbers and remnants of an even earlier cross roof.