Red House

Red House is an early 18th-century building of two storeys and an attic, situated on Cumberland Street. It has a red brick facade with a moulded brick cornice and a parapet topped with a coping stone. A pediment, spanning three windows, sits centrally above the roofline. The roof is covered in tiles, and dormers are topped with segmental pediments. The front has five sash windows with glazing bars, segmental arches, stone sills, and shallow brick aprons. Blind boxes are present on the upper windows. A set of five stone steps leads up to an eight-panel door, which has panelled reveals to its architrave. Flanking the door are brick Doric pilasters, with a triglyph above each, and a brick dentil segmental pediment over the door’s flat arch. Inside, there is a panelled hall. An early 19th-century wing, located on the left side, projects forward approximately four feet, flush with the pavement. This wing is also constructed of red brick and has a pantile roof. It features a single sash window, a blank recessed panel with a segmental head at ground level, and an eight-panel side door with a solid frame and an arched radial bar fanlight.