Red House Farmhouse

Red House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century and late 17th century, with later alterations. It has two storeys and attics in the main range, which is encased in 18th-century red brick laid in a somewhat irregular bond, with parts featuring dark headers. The building has a plain brick band, a moulded brick cornice, and a plain tiled roof, possibly covering an earlier timber-framed core. The main façade includes five cross windows and two six-panelled doors with raised fielded panels.

There is a 16th-century two-storey wing at right angles to the main range, which has four irregular bays. This wing is timber-framed and rendered, with a later brick gable that includes a chimney-stack on the south side. The windows in this wing are mainly 20th-century replacements, with three-light and four-light casement designs.

The interior of the wing is of considerable interest, although few original timbers are visible on the ground floor. On the upper floor, there is a three-bay room at the south end featuring two open trusses, cambered tie-beams, and long arched braces. The remains of four original windows with diamond mullions can be found, including one in the gable-end preceding the chimney-stack. The roof over the two southernmost bays was replaced in the later 17th century and includes one row of butt and one row of clasped purlins with windbraces. The remainder of the roof retains its original features, with numbered principal rafters, clasped purlins, and windbraces. There are distinct signs of smoke-blackening on the original timbers, and in the third bay of the large upper room, which is now partitioned off, there appears to have been a smoke-bay or plaster flue, indicated by two pairs of rafters that are neatly cut off below the apex to allow for a smoke outlet.