Gatehouse Farmhouse

Gatehouse Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring red plain tiled roofs. The building has a hipped jettied crosswing to the left, with a lean-to on the left return and a hip on the right of the right range. Curved brackets support the jetty, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the main range. The house is two storeys high, with a 1:2 arrangement on the first floor and a 1:1:2 arrangement on the ground floor. The windows are 19th-century style casements with two and three lights, and there are roundels on the ground and first floors to the right of the doorway. The entrance features a recessed six-panel door set in a chamfered round-headed doorway. It is said to have a crown post roof construction. John Jocelyne, a yeoman, lived here in 1796, as noted in F.H. Erith's "Ardleigh in 1796" published in 1978.