Hike (part 2) - Historic Houses of Shere, UK

Welcome to Shere! Share has a huge amount of houses of historic significance, and so, I'll take you on a tour!

This house is called Burrowdown. It is a brick house (duh), and it was built about 1865 by the DUke of Northumberland.
This is the Manor House Lodge and it was built in 1894.
This one here is called Tudor Cottage. It is a three-bay timber-framed open hall house with an internal jetty and smoke-blackened rafters. It was built in the early 15th century and a bay was added in 1571. The chimney was inserted about 1620. A hat that is possibly Tudor was discovered in 1972 concealed beside the chimney and it is on display in the Shere museum.
These are called the Vine Cottages. They were built around 1500, although the front part of the homes were redone in the early 17th century.
This house was built about 1660.

And this house, called Denton, was built about 1550.
This is called the Lime Cottage. It was also built in the 16th century.
This house is called Denmarke, and it was originaly probably a four-bay timber-framed house, with a fine upper room fronting the road, perhaps originally jettied, and possibly the meeting place for the manorial court. A date of about 1560-80 is suggested by teh early side-purlin roof. It was refaced and converted into cottages around 1725.
The earliest part of this house dates from 1640, while the newest end dates from the 1800s.
This was formerly an important house called Hawkin's. Two jettied cross-wings and part of the centre remain from a timer-framed hall house of about 1500, though it is not certain whether the hall was an open ahll. The cross-wings have crown-post roofs; the western wing was probably the original parlour, and the eastern wing the original service part.
This is Elm Cottage, formerly Gibble's, and end chimney two-bay timer framed house with a stair turret, built probably aroung 1620. A pot-quern of medieval type, discovered during alterations here in the rubble underneath an old bread-oven, was discussed in the 1964 volumeof the "Surrey Achaeological Collections".
This is Seaforth Cottage. It is timber-framed and built in 1632. It was considerably altered about 1860 by Sir Henry Cole (first director of the V&A).
This is Kinghames Restaurant. The house was built in 1640, although additions were made in the 17th and 18th century.
This is Forge Cottage. Parts of an earlier 14th century survive, although the rest of the building dates from about the 16th century.
This was originally a merchant's hall which dated around the 15th century. The original central open hall was replaced about 1600.

This is Rookery Nook, and it was built about 1450-1500. It was originally a single-storey open hall house, with its parlour end to the east and its service end to the west. By 1700 the house included a blacksmith's on the site.
That alcove was originally a fountain - the sign reads: The Drinking Fountain was given to the village by two maiden ladies, the misses Spotteswood. They lived and worshipped locally, but looked upon alcohol as the devil. They thought that visitors to the White Horse Pub should have an alternative drink and therefore commissioned the fountain in 1886. The fountain was operational until 1970 until the water level changed.
And this is the White Horse pub. I had a lovely rest and a lemonde here after my walk, and it was a lovely building on the inside. It was originally a two-bay timber-framed open hall house of about 1450, with twin service rooms to the north and two-bay cross-wings at both parlour and service ends. About 1600 a chimney with fine stone back-to-back fireplaces was inserted in the parlour end of the hall, and the hall reframed with a continuous jetty. The external timbering was applied about 1920.

There, wasn't Shere lovely? Hope you enjoyed it, and stay tuned for more prettiness. :)