Lime Tree Cottage

Lime Tree Cottage is a large town house in a terrace, dating from the mid-18th century, with an older wing at the rear likely from the mid to late 17th century. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone on a plinth, featuring flush quoins and a stone slate roof with a moulded wood eaves fascia. The rear has an artificial stone slate roof, with a brick end stack on the right and a lateral rear stack.

The house has a single front range with a rear extension built in 1893, which adjoins an older single-storey range, creating an L-shape. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has five windows on the upper floor, which are 4-pane sashes set in splayed reveals, likely made of stone, with raised cemented architraves. The ground floor also has four similar windows, and the central entrance features a wooden doorcase topped with a steep open dentil pediment on consoles and a semi-circular moulding in the tympanum. The door itself is recessed, consisting of six panels with the top two glazed and the lower four flush, adorned with decorative beaded mouldings in a moulded wood surround.

There are four flat-roofed dormers with 4-pane sashes, arranged as one on the left and three on the right. The earlier rear wing includes a 4-light stone mullion window on the south side and a very large arched stone fireplace. Inside, the cottage retains most of its original beams, although they are boxed in. There is a fine panelled room to the left of the hall featuring Ionic pilasters flanking the fireplace, along with egg and dart moulded panels and an overmantel. The room to the right of the hall has an Adamesque fireplace with segmental fluted columns and an elaborately decorated frieze.