Gate Cottage Gate House

Gate Cottage and Gate House are two cottages that were formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with some modernisation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor level underbuilt with brick, painted in Gate Cottage. The front of Gate House is likely made of 17th century English bond red brick, featuring many burnt headers that create a banded appearance, along with some 20th century brick patching, while the east end is mostly 20th century brick. The first floor level is timber-framed and clad with peg-tile, topped by a peg-tile roof with a brick stack and chimney shaft.

The building faces south and is set back from the road. Originally designed as a three-room lobby entrance plan farmhouse, the right (east) end served as the unheated service end room. An axial stack between the other two rooms provided back-to-back fireplaces, but without an internal inspection, it is unclear which was originally the parlour and which was the kitchen. The house is now divided into two cottages with a new partition built across the centre room as the party wall, and the original lobby entrance is now blocked. Gate Cottage occupies the left (west) part, while Gate House occupies the right (east) part. The structure has two storeys with attics in the roof space and secondary outshots to the rear.

The exterior features an irregular three-window front with timber casement windows, containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. Some of these may be old, but most are 20th century replacements. The front doorway of Gate House is located to the right of centre and contains a 19th century top-glazed six-panel door. Gate Cottage has a 20th century door in the outshot towards the back of the left end wall. The main roof is gable-ended.

The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey, but late 16th century to early 17th century carpentry is suspected.