The Red House

HEMPSTEAD TG 13 NW 3/29 The Red House II Farmhouse, early C18, brick with patterned headers, plain tiles to front, pantiles to rear. Single range, 3 bays. 2 storeys with attic and cellar. Gable end stacks with rebuilt shafts. Plinth with flint at base, platband, dentil cornice. Symmetrical facade: central doorway has porch with Tuscan entablature supported by two columns with upper part fluted, lower part smooth; 5 cross windows in pairs to bays 1 and 3 to ground and first floor, some with original leaded panes, fittings and pintle hinges, those to ground floor in reset openings. Plaque on left hand side to Samuel Fowles, d.1906, head keeper of the Hempstead Estate. Both gables with parapets, tumbled brickwork and eaves platband. Continuous outshut at rear, raised to l½ storeys, with fenestration of 1980's.

Listing NGR: TG1022938220