Raans Farmhouse

Raans Farmhouse is a 16th-century building that has been altered over time. It is constructed of red brick with clunch dressings, and has an old tiled roof with a moulded brick eaves cornice. The house has two storeys and five bays on the front, with a central, projecting, two-storey gabled porch. The porch features a moulded brick Tudor arch with a brick hood mould, a modern glazed door, and an internal moulded stone arch containing the original oak entrance door. A carved stone coat of arms is situated above the entrance arch. The first floor has a three-light stone mullioned and arched window with a stone hood, and blocked two-light windows on the side walls. A brick frame surrounds a rounded feature in the gable. Ground floor windows have been lowered, with stone hoodmoulds remaining. All windows are of a three-light stone mullioned design with arched lights and ovolo moulded mullions; some have been replaced in timber to match the original profile. Gable ends incorporate similar four-light first-floor windows and roundels on the gables. The rear elevation features gables on either side, with a large brick chimney on each. The central part of the rear elevation is constructed of flint with remnants of roughcast rendering, and has irregular windows, some of which are old mullioned and arched, while others are replacements. A single-storey rear wing is built of flint, clunch, and brick, and has been altered, retaining block mullioned and arched windows.

Inside, there is an original Tudor arched fireplace in the front ground floor room to the right. Relocated oak panelling is found in the entrance hall, and an original moulded oak handrail runs along the staircase at the left-hand end. The porch room displays a 17th-century moulded oak cornice with a modillion course, and rectangular facetted blocks. Exposed timber framing is visible in places. Moulded plaster cornices are present on the central landing and in the first-floor room to the right.