The Limes

The Limes is a house that dates from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. It features rendered timber framing and a plain tile roof. The building has an open hall with storeyed ends, with the hall and the right cross-wing constructed in the second half of the 15th century. The left wing is separately framed and dates from the early 16th century, with all parts of the building roofed at different heights. In the late 16th or early 17th century, the roof was raised to the same level, creating an attic and inserting a hall floor to form a continuous jetty. A two-storey rear lean-to was added to the left end in the mid-17th century. The house is now two storeys with an attic, jettied along the front and formerly at both ends. A plain dragon post survives at the left end, and another bay post is visible on the ground floor to the right of the dragon post. The eaves cornice is coved, and the roof is hipped. There is an off-centre ridge stack to the right and a plain central dormer with 20th-century casements. The first floor has regular fenestration with three 20th-century casements. On the ground floor, there are 20th-century canted bays to the right and centre, along with a rectangular 20th-century brick bay at the right end topped with a plain-tiled pentice. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located between the canted bays, with another door in the left end of the brick bay. The rear wing to the right has a timber-framed core. Inside, in the former hall area, there are moulded end-of-hall bressumers, moulded posts to the central truss, a "high" end partition, evidence for a hall window, moulded beams in the inserted ceiling, and a stone fireplace from the late 16th century. In the former right cross-wing, there is a plain crown post, while in the left section, there is a fragment of a moulded wood front window jamb and mid-17th-century stone fireplaces in the main room and lean-to on both floors.