Rake End House

Rake End House is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof with gabled ends. The gable parapets have been removed from the front range but still exist on the rear wings. The house has brick gable-end and axial stacks.

The layout consists of a three-room front range with an entrance hall situated between the left and center rooms, and a large double range service wing located near the center at the rear. There is also a small single-storey extension from the 19th century at the rear right-hand corner.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an almost symmetrical front with three bays on the left and one bay on the right, topped with a moulded brick dentil cornice. The tall windows on the ground floor have cambered arch heads and are fitted with late 19th-century four-pane sashes, while the first floor has 20th-century cross-mullion-transom windows. The doorway, located to the left of center, has a six-panel door with a rectangular two-pane overlight above it. The large rear wing has two parapeted gables and mullion-transom casements set in cambered arch openings.

Inside, much of the 18th-century joinery remains, including a well-crafted moulded-string staircase with thick moulded balusters, a moulded handrail, and turned newels. Other interior features include fielded two-panel doors, chamber chimneypieces—one with flat baluster-like pilasters and the other with an eared architrave, frieze, and cornice—a moulded wooden ceiling cornice, old floorboards, chamfered ceiling beams, window shutters, and a Victorian slate chimneypiece. The roof structure has not been observed.