Heronden

Heronden is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed, with exposed close-studding and rendered infilling, partially clad on the ground floor with red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The house comprises an open hall of two timber-framed bays, with a storeyed bay to the left end and two storeys to the right. The right-hand bays are two storeys high, the hall bays are one-and-a-half storeys high, and the left-hand bay may have been altered from two to one-and-a-half storeys with a semi-basement in the 18th century or later. A stone plinth runs along the base. The right-hand bays are jettied, and the hall bays were jettied when the floor was inserted, resulting in a higher bressumer. The bressumer of the left-hand bay has been raised to match the height, and the bay now projects slightly. The roof is hipped, with the ridge slightly higher to the left of the stack. There is a projecting stack to the left gable end, a ridge stack to the left of the centre, and a projecting brick stack to the rear wall of the hall. The fenestration is irregular, with four leaded windows and three hipped dormers – one to the left-hand bay and one to each hall bay – alongside a 4-light mullioned window in the second bay from the right. A ribbed door with a 4-centred arched head is located at the left end of the hall. A short rear return wing extends to the left. A two-storey stone and brick turret adjoins the rear stack. The interior has not been inspected. The building has group value.