4 Stoney Lane (EHER 25845)

Early 15th century three-storied, timber-framed town house.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Nos 2, 3 and 4 Stony Lane are a group of 15th century, timber-framed, three storeyed, gabled houses, with various modern lean-to additions at the rear. <1> <2> No 4 Stoney Lane. About 1410. Grade I. <3> Dating to about 1410, the building is a three-storied town house, jettied at each floor, and is timber-framed and plastered. The house is exposed to Stoney Lane. It has a red plain tile roof, original cellars, and leaded casements, many in original openings, and some original traceried window heads remain. There is a bow window to the ground floor, a repaired 15th century door, and carved jetty brackets that have carved spandrels, formerly on pilasters, of which only the moulded capitals remain. The house is gabled to the street and there is a 16th century red brick chimney stack. Internally, the frame is exposed with stop chamfered beams, jowled storey posts, cambered tie beams, and crown post roofs. The ground floor framing over the cellar is original. It has original four centred arches and some 15th or 16th century vertical boarded doors, and an original staircase with solid oak treads. (RCHM 10-12). <4> See also: <5>