Lime Close

Lime Close is a house located on Henley's Lane in Drayton, dating from the 17th century with various later additions, including an early 18th-century cross-wing at the rear left and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a roughcast plinth, small timber-framing with roughcast infill on the left and center, and roughcast on the right, likely over timber-framing. It has an old plain-tile complex roof and various brick stacks, including ridge stacks at the center and right of center. The structure has a U-shaped plan, possibly originally a hall house with a later lobby-entry addition.

The main facade faces the garden and consists of two storeys and an attic with a four-window range. There is an 18th-century two-panel door at the center, topped by a 20th-century lean-to hood. The windows display irregular arrangements of wood mullion and transom windows, with an Ipswich window on the first floor left of center, featuring a wood cornice with a pulvinated frieze. The left side has two cross-gables adorned with banded fish-scale tile-hanging.

On the left return, the right side is roughcast, revealing fragments of small timber-framing, while the left side is painted brick. The right range is two-storey-and-attic with a two-bay layout, and the left range is also two-storey-and-attic with a three-window arrangement. There is a sash door at the center of the right range, with irregular fenestration of casements and wood cross-windows on the left range, where the ground floor windows have segmental brick heads. A flat brick band separates the ground and first floors of the left range, and a brick dentil course is present at the eaves. The roof features three gabled dormers.

At the rear, the ground floor center is red brick, while the first floor is roughcast, likely over timber-framing. The cross-wing to the left shows central stone uncoursed rubble on the ground floor and roughcast, probably over brick, on the first floor. The right cross-wing is made of red brick with flared headers in Flemish bond. The rear also has irregular fenestration of wood mullion windows, with wood cross-windows on the ground floor of the right cross-wing and an Ipswich window on the first floor right of center.

Inside, there is a late 18th-century dogleg staircase on the left and a 20th-century open well staircase on the right. The main range features a queen-post roof, and some rooms contain 18th-century fielded panelling.