Gore Street Farmhouse

House. Dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, it was altered around the 19th century. The house is timber framed and rendered, with a plain tiled roof. It has a complex plan, potentially originating as a hall house and now comprising various framed ranges that almost enclose a courtyard. The front elevation features two storeys on a plinth and a continuous jetty supported by three brackets, satyrs, and dragon posts at the corners, which are repeated on the right elevation. There are three jettied gables projecting from the main hipped roof, with a stack cluster in the centre right, a single stack at the front of that, and another projecting at the end left. The first floor has three wooden casements, while the ground floor features three shuttered glazing bar sashes and one tripartite shuttered sash. An off-centre right entrance has a nine-panelled door. The right return has a long, lower framed range, continuously jettied on both sides. At the rear of this, and nearly closing off the courtyard to the south of the house, are two 16th-century structures set at right angles to one another, timber framed except for one wall built in English Bond red brick. One structure is of three bays, with one storey, close studded upper walls on a brick base, clasped purlins and a wind braced roof, and a large inglenook fireplace. The second of four bays is open to the roof, exhibiting clasped purlins and a wind braced roof. It was originally likely semi-domestic, possibly a washhouse or brewhouse. A weather boarded range follows, probably of a slightly later date and now used as a barn.