Red House

Red House is a house that dates from the early 18th century, with a core from the 16th century, and was later extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with evidence of a 16th-century timber frame and plain tile roofs. The house has 2½ storeys and a cellar, featuring an asymmetrical facade with six recessed sash windows that have glazing bars, all set beneath rubbed brick flat arched heads. There are three gabled dormer casements behind a brick parapet with a moulded cornice. The house has a moulded band at the first floor and a plinth. The entrance features a pedimented doorcase with a fret pattern frieze and a dentilled cornice, supported by scrolled brackets. The door consists of six fielded panels, with one panel incised in the reveals. The gable parapets have moulded brick coping, and there are axial brick stacks, with one located between the second and third bays, one internally at the right gable, and one external to the left gable. There is a slightly later two-storey gabled wing to the right that is flush with the main range, featuring a ground floor tripartite sash window with glazing bars and a first floor sash window, both beneath rubbed brick flat arches. The wing has tall brick stacks. At the rear, there is a 19th-century range that runs parallel to the main building and has a separate roof.

Inside, there are 18th-century doors with six sunk panels on the ground floor, while the first floor doors have two panels and HL hinges, including a cupboard door. The closed string dog-leg staircase has octagonal newels, turned balusters, and a moulded mahogany rail, all painted but likely from the 19th century. The first floor features a lugged fireplace. The ceilings have cased beams, with the left-hand ground floor and first floor rooms having cyma moulded cornices in each quadrant. The roof has clasped purlins with arched collars and wind braces. A former wall painting or stencil from the second half of the 16th century was located in the left-hand room but was removed to Ipswich Museum around 1929.