Gatehouse

The gatehouse, dating from the early 16th century and remodeled in the mid-19th century, consists of three houses. It features a plastered and colourwashed timber frame with a slate roof, standing two storeys high on a tarred brick plinth. The facade has a six-window range, with a carriageway on the far right that includes double 19th-century timber doors. Above the carriageway, there is a room lit by a two-light casement set within a recessed four-centred panel, which has a timber apron below for a tradesman's nameplate. The rest of the facade includes three panelled doors within timber doorcases that have hoods supported by scrolled consoles. The ground floor windows alternate uniformly between three three-light casements and two two-light casements, all beneath hoods on label stops. The first floor has five two-light casements, also with hoods on label stops. The roof has a shallow pitch and features two ridge stacks and one internal gable-end stack on the west side. Inside, the timber frame is made of heavy scantling, with jowled principal posts and chamfered bridging beams. The early 16th-century crown post roof was truncated in the mid-19th century at the purlin level, leaving mortices for former arched braces.