Little Gains House

Little Gains House is a house dating back to the later 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed with a timber frame. The ground floor is brick, using a mixed bond of red and grey bricks, while the first floor is timber-framed with rendered infilling. The left gable end is red and grey brick in a Flemish bond. The roof is covered in plain tiles and is hipped, with a gablet on the left side. A multiflue brick ridge stack is positioned towards the left end of the house.

The building has a flint plinth with a brick top course. The first floor exhibits broadly-spaced studding and two tension braces. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four small casement windows: a two-light window to the left end bay, a single-light and a two-light window to the right-central bay, and a two-light window to the right end bay. A boarded double door is located under the stack. A leaded two-light casement with old glass is present at the left end of the ground floor. A painted brick rear lean-to has been added, raised to two storeys at the left end.

Inside, the short left end bay features axial joists. The right-central bay exhibits a chamfered axial beam and joists, while the right end room has bevelled axial joists. There are gunstock-jowled posts and a tension-braced stud partition to the first floor between the right-central and right end bays. A six-light diamond-mullion window is located in the rear ground floor of the right end bay, with a similar five-light window above it on the first floor. A brick fireplace includes a chamfered cambered bressumer with hollow spandrels, along with a bread oven and a plank door.