The Red House

The Red House is a house with a 17th century core, located on Nethergate Street in Hopton. It is two storeys high and features a timber-framed structure that is encased in early 19th century red brick, topped with a clay pantiled roof. The house has an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. The windows are late 19th century casements with three lights and a single cross-bar, and the ground storey has rendered gauged heads. There is an enclosed gabled brick porch covered with black-glazed pantiles and plain bargeboards on the gables. A row of small cast iron lions' heads is spaced along the guttering. Low early 19th century cast iron railings with pointed acanthus-leaf tops stretch across the front and along the south-east corner of the house, featuring two gates adorned with honeysuckle decoration and gateposts topped by pineapples. Inside, the house has exposed timbering from the early 17th century on the ground storey, with evidence of roof-raising above.