Danes House

Danes House is a house built in the early to mid-18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from rubblestone, featuring red brick quoins and bands that create cross-shaped panels, with some blue headers. The right side is made of red brick with blue headers laid in Flemish bond, while the gable is of rubblestone. The roof is covered with concrete tiles from the 20th century, and there is a brick stack.

The house has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic, with two bays. At the front, there is a plinth and on the left side, a semi-circular stone step leads up to a board door fitted with strap hinges that have leaf terminals, accompanied by a two-pane overlight in a wooden architrave and a flat brick arch above. A console-bracketed canopy shelters the entrance. Above the door, there is a two-light window with an original flat brick arch, and to the right, there are three-light windows with later segmental brick arches. All windows feature wooden mullions and transoms, with two-pane lights below four-pane overlights. A pent-roofed two-light dormer is present on the roof, and a corniced stack is located at the right end.

At the rear, there is a stair wing on the right, which includes a 20th-century cross-window beneath an original flat brick arch and a swept hipped roof. A 20th-century lean-to addition and dormer are present but are not of special interest.

Inside, the right-hand room boasts 18th-century panelling, a brick fireplace, and a semi-domed shelved niche with a cherub-painted ceiling. The room also features H-hinged panelled cupboard doors. The staircase is an open-well, open-string design with bulbous turned balusters, a columnar newel, and moulded tread ends that resemble the brackets supporting the front door canopy. The handrail is moulded and ramps around at the bottom. Below the stair, there is an old board cellar door with leaf-terminals on the strap hinges, and at the foot of the stair, a double arch with a central floating capital can be found. The doors on the stair landing and at the top of the stair are made of two raised and fielded panels. The first-floor right-hand room contains 18th-century panelled cupboards. The roof features wide-spaced queen-strut, collared trusses and through purlins.