The Red House Including Entrance Gateway, Railings And Side Brick Walls To Forecourt

The Red House is a substantial house dating to approximately 1700, situated on the High Street. It is a symmetrical building with a three-bay principal facade and recessed wings on either side. The house is constructed of red brick with a brick plinth. Notable features include flat arches with rubbed red brick headers above the windows, a moulded stone band above the ground floor windows, and a heavy projecting moulded modillioned cornice with a concealed leaded gutter. The cornice incorporates egg-and-dart moulding and carved, enriched console brackets, returning at the side of the central feature. The roof is steeply hipped and tiled, with three flat-roofed dormers containing square-paned casements. Tall brick end stacks are connected by tiled stack ridges. The recessed wings have moulded, plain modillioned eaves and hipped tiled roofs.

The entrance is a C18 panelled door, raised two steps, with a rectangular fanlight above, featuring leaded tracery. Fluted Doric columns flank the doorway, supporting an entablature with a flat modillioned cornice. Sash windows with intact bars are set within moulded exposed frames, some with ornamental sunblind cases. Brick moulded dressings are present around all window openings. Slit sash windows are located at either end of the central feature, on both floors. Square sash windows feature in painted wooden reveals on the first floor of the supporting wings. A small basement light is situated to the left of the centre door, with a flat segmental brick arch above.

The front of the house is bordered by ornamental C18 cast iron railings set on a brick plinth, with carriage entrance gates to the right and left. The railings and gates are terminated by brick piers surmounted by stone coping and canon balls. A small gravel yard lies in front of the building, enclosed to the right by returned C18 brick side walls, which include a modern flat lintel arched opening.