Gate Farmhouse

Gate Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries, built of rubble stone and covered with imitation stone slate roofs. The main range, on the left, has coped gables and end stacks. It has a two-window front. The first floor has a 4:12:4-pane tripartite sash window and a 12-pane sash; the ground floor has a casement pair and a triple casement. A half-hipped outbuilding is located at the south end. A lower range attached to the north has a north stack. It features two first-floor windows with 18th-century three-light, cyma-moulded flush mullions, and a ground floor door alongside a 6-panel door. To the right of the door is a 19th-century tripartite sash window. The main range has early to mid-17th century details to the rear, including two 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows and a door to the left, all within a chamfered surround. There is a remnant of a dripcourse stepped as a hoodmould over the door, and a single long hoodmould over one 19th-century sash window on the first floor. The rear of the north range has a rear wing with a two-window range of casements on the south side, with lower windows with hoodmoulds. A single-storey west-end outbuilding exists, as does a parallel range to the north. Inside, an early 18th-century staircase features a heavy moulded rail and turned balusters, and the north range has two deep chamfered beams. The house was illustrated in the Draycot Estate sale catalogue of 27th July 1920, page 48.