Redgate Farmhouse

Redgate Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house, with 18th-century additions and a complete restoration and refurbishment undertaken in 1993. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a clay tiled roof and a red brick stack. It has an H-shaped plan and is one and a half storeys high. All external features, including rebuilt stacks from 1992/3, are in keeping with the original style. Decorative basket pargetting is present, along with casement windows of 1, 2, and 3-light design. The south front has a doorway and stack positioned off-centre to the east, with a four-window range and a half-hipped roof at the east end, featuring three gabled dormer windows. A gabled brick and timber projecting porch is also present. The east end elevation features the gable end of the main range with a shallow, rear weatherboarded lean-to, and a wing to the north (central to the main range) with a large stack through the roof pitch, a picture window, and a doorway aperture below. To the north, a gable end of the rear wing runs parallel to the main range, with a single-storey gabled projection attached. The west end elevation displays gable ends of both the main and rear ranges, a link block between them, and a set-back area. The rear north elevation is four windows wide and flush. The interior was not inspected, but exposed studding and ceiling joists are visible. The house was built in phases: firstly, a 17th-century three-cell lobby-entrance house, featuring a timber lintelled fireplace to the central "hall" and a brick arched-headed fireplace to the east-end parlour. Secondly, an 18th-century kitchen wing was added, with a large timber lintelled fireplace both central and at a right angle to the original house. A further 18th-century range was subsequently added, set at the north end of the kitchen wing and built parallel with the original house.