Redgate

Redgate is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of a mixture of cob and stone, plastered externally, and has gabled end slate roofs. Originally a three-room, cross-passage house, with the higher end situated to the left of the passage, the lower end has been dismantled and replaced with a single-storey extension. An external stone stack heats the inner room; a former axial stack which originally backed onto the passage is now on an end stack and heats the hall. The main range is two storeys high.

The front elevation has a two-window arrangement. It features 19th-century four-light casement windows on the first floor, a similar window on the ground floor, and an inserted glazed door with adjacent windows to the left. Two later brick raking buttresses are visible. A small window, possibly intended to light a former newel that stood forward of the stack, is located at the left-hand end. A small, partially glazed wooden porch is also present.

The interior includes a high-quality screen of ovolo-moulded plank and muntin, featuring bulbous stops, which separates the hall from the inner room. Ogee-moulded ceiling beams are also present. The hall chamber contains a fireplace with moulded stone lintels. The roof structure comprises four upper crucks with trenched purlins, along with evidence of former lapped and notched collars which are now missing; the diagonal ridge-piece is also absent. The roof was not inspected, and the above description is based on a report from 1980 by Commander E H D Williams within the RCHM archives.