The Old Lime House

The Old Lime House is a late 17th or early 18th century house located on the north side of Goudhurst Church Road. It is constructed of red and blue brick with a plain tiled roof. The house is one storey with an attic, built on a plinth with a gambrel roof. A projecting half-hipped wing extends from the left end. Brick stacks are present to the centre right and end right. The roof has three flat-roofed dormers with leaded wooden casements, and three leaded casements are located on the ground floor. A boarded door is set beneath a raking hood on the centre left, while a blocked doorway sits in a lobby-entry position in the centre right. A cross-wing to the left has boarded doors on each floor and features carved stone panels on the first floor, depicting a man to the left, an urn, and a woman to the right. These figures, known locally as Adam and Eve and the Soup Tureen, were crudely carved by Thomas Apps, who operated a lime store and builders yard on the site.