The Red House

STEEP STROUD ROAD SU 72 SW 12/10 The Red House 23/01/86 GV II

Farmhouse. C17, early and late C19, C20. Walls of red brickwork in English, Monk and Stretcher bonds, small section of malmstone with brick dressings, small section of exposed framing, tile-hanging of part of 1st floor, and all of two walls. Tile roof with half-hip and rear catslide, and low-pitched hipped slate roof to cross- wing. A three-bay timber frame of two storeys, with an early C19 cross-wing of three storeys: the latter presents a south elevation once symmetrical of three windows, but now with a full height angular bay of three bays at the west side: the bay is of red brickwork and the remainder is tile-hung: sashes: a glazed projection in the middle and east side contains an entrance within a porch and a French door to a living room. The west elevation shows the older part, of two storeys three windows, with tile-hung 1st floor above C17 brickwork; casements, a former brick porch (now a window) being enclosed within a larger part-open C20 porch, having the main entrance. Small C20 single-storeyed extension at the north end, of brick and tile.