Red House Farmhouse

TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM VICTORIA MILL ROAD

2/128 Red House Farmhouse

25.10.51 - II

Farmhouse. C16 and late C17, with later alterations. 2 storeys and attics to main range, which is encased in C18 red brick in a somewhat irregular bond, parts with dark headers; plain brick band; moulded brick cornice; plaintiled roof; possibly an earlier timber-framed core. 5 cross windows; 2 6-panelled doors with raised fielded panels. A C16 2-storey wing in 4 irregular bays, at right-angles to the main range, is timber-framed and rendered, with a later brick gable, incorporating a chimney-stack, on the south. 3-light and 4-light casement windows, mainly C20 replacements. The interior of this range is of considerable interest, although few original timbers are visible on the ground floor. On the upper floor there was a 3-bay room at the south end with 2 open trusses; cambered tie-beams and long arched braces in situ, and the remains of 4 original windows with diamond mullions, one in the gable-end preceding the chimney-stack there. The roof over the 2 southernmost bays was replaced in the later C17, and has one row of butt and one row of clasped purlins with windbraces; the remainder of the roof is as original, with the principal rafters numbered, clasped purlins and windbraces. There are distinct signs of smoke-blackening on the original timbers, and in the 3rd bay of the large upper room, now partitioned-off, there appears to have been a smoke-bay or plaster flue: 2 pairs of rafters are neatly cut off below the apex, apparently an original feature, to allow for a smoke outlet.

Listing NGR: TM2745862807