Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE REDGATES LANE, Sewards End
669-1/4/384 Redgate Farmhouse
01/11/72

II

House. Late C17, with C18 additions complete restoration and
refurbishment in progress (1993). Timber-framed and plastered,
clay tiled roof, red brick stack. H plan. One and a half
storeys. All external features, including rebuilt stacks,
1992/3. Basket pargetting, casement windows 1, 2 and 3-light.
S front elevation: doorway and stack off centre to E. 4 window
range, roof half hipped at E end, 3 gabled dormer windows.
Gabled brick and timber projecting porch. E end elevation:
gable end of principal range with shallow rear weatherboarded
lean-to, behind wing to N (central to principal range) with
large stack through roof pitch, picture window and doorway
aperture below. To N, gable end of rear wing parallel to
principal range with single storey gabled projection. W end
elevation: gable ends of principal and rear parallel range,
link block between and set back. All units in house style, 4
window range. Rear N elevation: 4 window range, flush.
INTERIOR: not inspected but seen to have exposed studding and
ceiling joists. Sequence of construction - (1) C17 3-celled
lobby-entrance house with timber lintelled fireplace to
central `hall'. Brick arched headed fireplace to parlour at E
end. (2) rear C18 kitchen wing with big timber lintelled
fireplace central and at right angles to (1). (3) further C18
additions as range set at N end of (2) and built parallel with
(1).

Listing NGR: TL5667439480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275895

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