Lane End Farmhouse, boundary walls and outbuildings

Lane End Farmhouse is a former farmhouse of 18th-century date, substantially rebuilt in the early 19th century and renovated in the late 20th century. The listing also includes several outbuildings and boundary walls dating from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

The house is constructed mostly from red brick in English bond, with blue lias rubble to part of the front (north) elevation. The principal two-storey range has a thatched roof with stone copings and brick chimneystacks to the gable ends, with a further ridge stack to the left-of-centre. The single-storey wings have plain tiled roofs.

The building has a U-shaped plan with a through-passage, a three-room main range and two single-storey wings to the front (north). The main range is two storeys and four bays, raised above the adjacent road level. The roadside (north) elevation has an off-centre entrance with a six-panelled door with glazed top panels and a late 20th-century flat canopy above. There are mullioned timber windows of three lights; the window above the entrance probably dates from the 18th century and has been restored. The flanking single-storey gabled wings break forward and have rendered walls except for exposed stonework to the west elevation of the right-hand wing. The left (east) return is rendered and has a projecting structure about 2 metres high with a tiled monopitch roof and a low square-headed opening in its south wall, possibly a stoke hole; this is probably a curing chamber.

The garden (south) elevation is built of brick on a stone plinth with square-headed lintels of rubbed bricks and keystones to the ground-floor openings. The second bay from the right has an entrance door with glazed upper panels above raised and fielded panels. The other bays and the first floor have 20th-century wooden casement windows. The west gable end is also of brick on a stone plinth and has only one window which lights the stairs at this end of the building.

The interior (partially inspected in 2016) includes a room to the east of the through-passage with a large fireplace with timber bressumer and stone jambs, a bread oven and a summer oven. There is a stone winder stair to the left of the stack and a second timber staircase at the west end of the house.

To the front of the farmhouse is a small forecourt raised above the road level with a retaining wall and a short flight of steps on the north side. At the north-east corner of the east wing is a short length of walling constructed of red brick with stone coping and a later, probably late 19th-century, pier at its north end. Boundary walls run to either side of the house parallel to the road: the wall to the west is built of random stone rubble with a cement capping, and the wall to the east is random stone rubble capped with shaped red bricks. Within the rear (south-west) garden is a further stone rubble wall with ashlar capping running north-east to south-west from the house.

Immediately east of the house is a detached outbuilding constructed of blue lias with red brick dressings under a clay tiled roof. It has a datestone inscribed 1919 set high in the east gable wall, and the west gable end has a taking-in door with the remains of a hoist above. Behind (south) this is a further outbuilding of stone and brick with a monopitch roof and a doorway to the west elevation. It has a smaller footprint than a building shown in this location on the Ordnance Survey map of 1889 and incorporates some early fabric.

The former agricultural buildings now known as Home Orchard Farm and its modern detached garage, and the greenhouse at Lane End Farmhouse are not included in this listing.