Red House Cottage

Red House Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, incorporating a likely 17th-century core. It was remodelled in the early 19th century. The house is constructed with a brick core rendered over, set upon a painted sandstone plinth. It has a plain tile roof. The building follows a two-cell baffle-entry plan and has two storeys and an attic over a basement.

The front of the house features an 18th-century moulded plinth and a pair of hipped dormers with glazing bar sashes. A central brick ridge stack rises from the roof, incorporating pilaster shafts and brick weathering from the late 19th century. The facade is arranged with a two-window arrangement, featuring 16-pane glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes and painted stone cills. The central front door is an 18th-century design with six raised and fielded panels, a moulded architrave, and a simple wooden doorcase featuring panelled pilaster strips and a triangular-pedimented hood supported by shaped brackets with guttae. Three stone steps lead up to the door, flanked by low red sandstone walls that formerly supported railed enclosures. The right-hand gable end was rebuilt in the late 19th century using red brick. The rear of the house has two gabled wings, with the right-hand wing featuring a first-floor tripartite glazing bar sash (the centre now divided into two casements) set within a painted keyed stone lintel.

Inside, a mid-18th-century rectangular-well oak staircase has winders, a closed string with a pulvinated frieze, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and panelled square newel posts with beaded corners and moulded caps. A fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor room has a 17th-century roll-moulded stone inner surround and a likely early 18th-century surround incorporating a frieze and dentil cornice. Above the fireplace is a reset section of 17th-century carving depicting a mask flanked by dragons. Small cupboards flank the fireplace, with two-panelled doors. A restored 17th-century carved fireplace surround is found in the right-hand ground-floor room, including flanking pilasters and an overmantel with three panels featuring lozenges and stylized foliage, topped with a carved cornice at half-height. A segmental-arched niche with shelves is located to the left, with a cupboard below, incorporating reused 17th-century panelling with carved lozenges. A first-floor room in the rear wing has a fireplace with a lugged marble surround, a frieze with husk swags, and a moulded cornice. Throughout the house are mainly six-panelled doors, including three early 18th-century oak doors, one to the first floor, one between ground-floor rooms, and one under the stairs; all have two raised and fielded panels and H-L hinges, as does the front door. Panelled window shutters and reveals are present. Old oak boards remain on the first floor and in the attic. Internally, the rear wall plate is exposed, and the eaves were raised, likely in the 18th century. The roof structure includes a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts, and single purlins. The house was probably originally a 17th-century timber-framed building that was rebuilt in the early 18th century and extended in the late 18th century, with further remodelling in the early 19th century. It was formerly linked to and part of the adjoining house at No. 29, The Red House.