The Limes

The Limes is a house located on Otham Street, dating from the mid-17th century, with an early 19th-century facade and various alterations. It features a timber frame with a channelled render facade and a plain tile roof. The building has a semi lobby-entry plan, with a narrow central corridor, likely formed in the 19th century, behind the stack, and one room on each side. It stands two storeys tall with attics on a rendered plinth, topped by a plain stone-coped parapet and a half-hipped roof. A rendered ridge stack is positioned to the left of centre, while two 19th-century projecting brick gable end stacks are to the right. The front has a regular three-window arrangement of recessed 16-pane sashes, and a rendered flat-roofed porch under the stack features engaged Doric columns and a panelled door with a narrow rectangular fanlight. The house is flanked by single-storey rendered walls containing round-headed doorways. There is a narrow 19th-century parallel rear range and a short rear wing to the right, along with a single-storey early 20th-century addition with a three-quarters hipped roof, set back from the flanking wall.

Inside, the left ground-floor room has an ovolo-moulded axial beam with a soffit panel, and a fireplace with a chamfered wooden bressumer and renewed jambs. A tooled and chamfered stone jamb with a vase stop has been reused in the later cellar stairs. The right ground-floor room features a 19th-century grate with irises on the tiles and a consoled marble shelf. There are also 19th-century panelled doors and attic stairs located behind the stack, along with a staggered butt-purlin roof.