Herne House And South Lynn

Herne House and South Lynn is an asymmetrical pair of houses built around 1845. They are constructed from machine-cut limestone ashlar and feature slate roofs with moulded stacks. The layout includes a double depth plan with a later 19th-century wing on the left.

The exterior showcases an irregular Tudorbethan style. Herne House, on the left, has a two-storey front with three windows, characterized by two parapeted and shouldered gables topped with pierced stone finials. There are label moulds over small square recesses at the apexes, which feature three rotating mouchette motifs, and an octagonal stone finial at the centre valley of the parapet. The windows include two-paned, two-light casements with small-paned overlights on the first floor, and stone mullioned and transomed windows with crown glass and leaded overlights on the ground floor, with two lights to the left and three lights to the right. Above a projecting porch with a coped parapet and a simple cornice on pilasters, there is a shallow relieving arch and a two-light window above double vertical-panelled oak doors.

South Lynn consists of a three-storey front with four windows arranged in two blocks, similar in style to Herne House. The left-hand block is set back and features two half dormers with two-light casement windows, mirroring the first floor of Herne House. There are two string courses between the first floor and the attic, along with similar first-floor windows. To the left, in the set-back angle, there is a single-storey porch with pierced quatrefoils on the parapet above a Tudor-arched, half-glazed door with six vertical panels. To the right of the porch is a two-light window with blind ogee trefoil-headed panels above. The far right has a later lean-to bay with a large three-light window, and a two-storey, two-window range, likely a former service wing, features two forward-facing gables, label moulds over two-light casement windows, and a 20th-century window inserted into the ground floor centre.

The interior has not been inspected. Despite some alterations, these houses are notable examples of the early Victorian trend towards non-Classical, romantically inspired designs.