Bluegate Farmhouse

Bluegate Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations. Research by the current owner suggests it was built around 1560. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red pantiled roof that has a lower hip to the right crosswing and a forward leanto extension. There are off-centre chimney stacks on the left and far right. The house has two storeys, with five small paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, along with a circular window on the first floor to the right of a 20th-century gabled porch. Much of the internal frame is concealed, but visible features include heavy chamfered bridging joists, halved arch braces in the partition walls, jowled storey posts, a rear mullion window, an arch braced side purlin roof, and arched braces in the crosswing. The farmhouse was formerly owned by Golding Constable, the father of the painter John Constable.