The Red House

The Red House is a house that has been converted into a school. It was originally built in 1864, although it has origins dating back to the 17th century and has had additions made in the 20th century. The house was initially constructed for the Slingsby family. It features brickwork in English bond with ashlar dressings and a Westmorland slate roof.

The main facade is two storeys high with attics and consists of eight bays. The outermost and third bays project forward and are gabled. There are three large external chimney stacks and quoins at all corners. The third bay has a Tudor-arched half-glazed door set in a square-headed frame. The first bay has a small round-headed window, while the remaining bays are fitted with two-light transomed fixed windows, except for the right bay which has a full-length tripartite transomed window with stepped Tudor-arched lower lights. A first-floor band runs across the facade. The left bay features a small round-arched window and the second bay has a single-light transomed window. The third bay has a stepped three-light transomed window, and the other bays have two-light transomed windows.

In the attics, there are single-light windows in the outer bays and a cruciform mock arrow slit in the third bay. Flat-topped casement dormers are present in the fourth, sixth, and seventh bays. The gables have coping, shaped kneelers, and a chimney stack at the right end. The right gable end is mostly constructed of two-inch bricks, indicating that the facade may have been built around an earlier 17th-century house.

Inside, there is early 18th-century panelling in the central bedroom, and some door frames and the decorative cornice in the dining room may also be original features from the earlier house, although the rest of the interior was completely refurbished in 1864.