Red House

Red House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made around 1600 and in the 17th century. It features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan, with a hall range and two crosswings. The building has two storeys, and the left-hand parlour cross-wing, added around 1600, includes attics. The structure is primarily made of red brick, showcasing mainly 16th-century work with some original diaper patterning in burnt headers. The parlour wing is mostly timber-framed with brick-nogging, having a brick front wall, corner pilasters, a moulded band at the first floor, and a crow-stepped parapet gable. The roof is plaintiled, with an internal 17th-century chimney made of red brick and a central raking dormer.

The windows are mainly late 18th or 19th-century wooden designs featuring slender mullions and transoms with metal casements. In the parlour wing, these windows are set into reduced original openings, adorned with pediments of carved brick on both the ground and first floors. The entrance door, from the 17th century, is a plank door beneath an open 20th-century lean-to plaintiled porch. Inside, the mid-16th-century hall has a plank and muntin cross-passage screen, likely repositioned. Above, there is an original wooden mullioned window with later leaded glazing. The parlour, probably added around 1600, boasts a fine plaster ceiling with mouldings encasing the main beams and a running strapwork pattern on the soffit, featuring repeated floral designs in each quadrant. Additionally, the parlour contains a 16th-century ogee-headed linenfold panelled door, with rosette-carved spandrils above the arched doorway. To the right, there is an extension of the service wing made of red brick, dating from the 16th or early 17th century.