The Gatehouse And Attached Front Wall On South Side

The gatehouse is a detached house with an attached front wall, dating to the late 16th and late 17th centuries, and altered in the 20th century. It is of group value. The construction uses chequered flint and limestone with brick, with a Welsh slate roof to a late 17th-century range, and a partly close-studded timber frame and pantiled roof to the 16th-century build. A brick stack punctuates the facade. The building is arranged in an L-shape. The south front is two storeys high with five windows. A glazed door with a Tudor-arched head is located in the right-hand bay of the 17th-century range. To the left of the door are three tall, two-light, leaded mullioned casements. A lintel string course runs above these, followed by three further two-light mullioned casements on the first floor, finished with a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The 16th-century section to the right has 20th-century casements at ground floor and first floor, along with a semi-circular headed leaded casement also on the first floor. The right return has a 20th-century casement, and the left return has a blocked mullioned window on the first floor. The rear of the 16th-century range has 20th-century ground floor casements, a close-studded first floor, and an attic with leaded casements. To the right of the 17th-century range is a 20th-century door with Ionic pilasters, reset from the south front, and a single-storey addition of altered 20th-century date. This has ground and first floors with two cross windows featuring recessed chamfered mouldings.

The interior of the kitchen in the 16th-century wing includes a deeply chamfered beam. The late 17th-century range houses features characteristic of the end of the century including a dining room with full raised panelling, a stone bolection-moulded fireplace, and a moulded ceiling cornice. The drawing room also has a bolection-moulded fireplace reputedly moved from the first floor. A bedroom above the dining room has raised panelling and a similar fireplace, and the southwest bedroom has a similar fireplace with a wooden dentilled overmantel. A jowled main post from the timber frame is retained at the top of the stairs. The roof of the 16th-century build is a two-bay construction with a collar and tie-beam truss and chamfered purlins; this likely represents the remains of a larger wing.

A limestone and flint chequered boundary wall, integral to the 17th-century build, extends approximately 25 metres to the south. It has stepped double roll-moulded saddleback coping and chamfered rusticated stone gate piers with ball finials. A lozenge-shaped inscription tablet is set in the wall between the corner of the house and the gate piers.