Gate Farmhouse

Gate Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1600, with significant renovations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It features a three-cell plan with a parlour cross-wing and stands two storeys tall, with the cross-wing including attics. The building is timber-framed, although the walling of the hall range was completely rebuilt in the 19th century using colourwashed brick. The parlour was encased around 1910 in gault brick, accented with red brick dressings. The main range has 19th-century casement windows, while the cross-wing has 20th-century sash windows with stone lintels. There are stone splayed bays topped with embattled parapets. The entrance porch has a flat roof, stone pediment, and ball finials. Inside, the main range boasts late 16th-century floor joists that are slightly chamfered, along with cambered tiebeams. The roof features clasped purlins, with rafters that have been reused from an earlier structure. The cross-wing displays heavy unmoulded framing members and a well-constructed wind-braced clasped purlin roof.