Gatehouse Farmhouse

Gatehouse Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with origins in the late 17th century or earlier, significantly remodelled and extended during the 18th and 19th centuries, with 20th-century alterations. The structure combines framed construction with a brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and stacks have brick shafts. The plan is a double-depth arrangement, two rooms wide, with a central entrance leading to a cross passage containing the staircase. The rear right wing (north west) likely dates to the late 17th century, while the front block, originally heated by end stacks, was rebuilt in the 18th century. A 19th-century block fills in what was formerly an "L"-shaped house, creating a double-depth plan.

The two-story front facade is symmetrical, featuring three bays of Flemish bond brick on a plinth, with a moulded brick cornice at first floor level below the tile hanging, a gable-ended roof, and end stacks. A set of steps leads to a circa early 19th-century panelled front door with fielded panels, sheltered by a flat porch hood with shaped brackets. Late 19th or early 20th-century two- and three-light casements with polygonal leaded panes are present on the first and ground floors, respectively. The rear right wing has a half-hipped rear (west) end. The north elevation of this wing features 20th-century windows, including a French window and two flat-roofed attic dormers.

The interior of the rear right wing and the north room of the main block reveal plain carpentry, including a considerable amount of reused timber. The front right room contains a large open fireplace with a plain lintel. The rear wing retains wall framing on the first floor, with jowled wall posts. A circa late 18th-century stick baluster staircase has a wreathed handrail. The roof of the main block comprises common rafter couples without purlins or a ridgeboard, a similar common rafter roof covering the rear right wing.

The farmhouse shares group value with Gatehouse Cottages.