Red Tile Cottages

Red Tile Cottages is a lobby-entrance house dating from around 1600, with extensions added in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof made of machine-made red clay tiles. The original structure consists of three bays running approximately north-south, featuring an axial chimney stack in the middle bay. A 19th-century axial chimney stack is located at the south end. A one-bay extension to the south, built in the 17th century, also has a 19th-century axial chimney stack. Further extensions to the north, south, and west were added in the 19th century, creating a block of cottages. The building has two storeys.

On the east elevation, there are four plain boarded doors and twelve 20th-century metal casement windows on the ground floor, with five additional windows on the first floor. Some of the timber framing is exposed internally. In the original building, the axial and transverse beams are plain chamfered with step stops, and the joists are of deep section and unchamfered. The 17th-century south extension features an axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and thinner, vertical section unchamfered joists. The structure includes jowled posts with arched braces to the tiebeams. The tiebeam between the northern and middle bays of the original building has been removed and replaced with an iron tie rod. Inside, arched braces extend from the posts to the wallplates, which are not trenched. The roof has clasped purlins and curved wind bracing. Some original hardwood floorboards are present, although they are covered by softwood boards.

This building is depicted in elevation on the Walker map of 1609, showing a double chimney stack just south of the center and four windows on each floor. At that time, it was part of the manor of Housham Hall, which it remained associated with until around 1975. It was held by Edward Gemminges, who owned 72 acres known as Newlandes alias Newmans. Other farm buildings shown on the map, including two barns, a carthouse, and a stable, have since been removed.