Red House

Red House is a house with an early 16th-century rear section and a late 18th-century front block. It is a double-pile building. The front is built of red brick with a wooden eaves cornice featuring modillions, while the roof has 20th-century plain tiles to the front and glazed black pantiles to the rear. The older section is timber framed and plastered, originally with a pantiled roof. The house has two storeys and attics, with a five-bay facade featuring flush-frame sash windows with glazing bars, set under flat, rubbed brick arches. The doorcase has pilasters with dosserets, an open pediment, and panelled reveals, sheltering a six-panel raised and fielded door with a semi-circular fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars. Three pedimented dormers are present, each with a two-light window with small panes. Gable stacks are visible. The left gable end has various sash windows and blind panels, concealing the earlier structure behind a flat parapet, which slopes steeply down towards the rear.

Internally, the earlier range retains some exposed timber framing. The hall exhibits close studding and a moulded bridging beam with a band of running leaf carving on its soffit. A blocked 16th-century doorway with a four-centre arched head is found in the side wall of the parlour, close to the gable end. The 16th-century structure is mainly visible on the upper floor at the service end. The attic floor has closely-spaced plain joists set flat. The roof displays two rows of wind-braced butt purlins; above the hall and parlour chambers are slightly cambered collars with long, solid arched braces meeting at the centre. The front range contains an original well stair with stick balusters, in two flights.