NHER 14220 (Building record) - The Limes

September 1962. Listed, Grade II.
Fine Late Georgian house. 3 bays, 2 storeys; large; red brick with blue pantile roof. Dentilled cornice. Central classical doorway. Venetian windows except for central upper, simple but still with rounded head. Excellent condition.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose, (NAU) 15 November 1978.

However [1] in July 1996 notes house gutted by builders; PVC windows inserted, brickwork badly pointed, all without Listed Buildings Consent.
E. Rose (NLA) 28 August 1996.

The prosecution was successful and the offenders made to replace in timber the façade windows, and those facing the street to the east, but not those to the courtyard. The execrable pointing remains.

December 2005. Site visit.
The façade described above in 1978 faces south. The gables are tumbled and parapetted. A long range projects north from the east end; this had wooden-cross casements now replaced by the PVC windows. There is a double pile to the main range west of this. These rear projections appear to be slightly later in date but all the bricks bear horizontal skintlings (post c1770) in Flemish bond. The interior retains a staircase hall behind the façade door with dogleg open-string ornamented stair; all remainder gutted and chimneys now rest on steel supports. New owner has discovered that the façade was in fact lined and ruddled, as shown by remains of whitened false joints gouged in the bricks - a technique once thought not to occur after the mid 17th century.
(S1) includes an 18th century garden wall to the south; this is at present invisible in creeper.
To the north is a barn (within listed curtilage, but originally not connected with this building). It is T-shaped, the east projection and north gable wall of 19th century flint and brick with gables later raised; the main section clad in corrugated iron and perhaps reduced in length at south end; but where the two join is a section of fossilised timber framing, wallplate with scarf joint and two mortices for arched braces. Studwork beneath seems to be a more recent insertion of reused pieces.
See (S3).
E. Rose (NLA), 20 December 2005.

(S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 January 2006.