Listed Building: GATES FARMHOUSE (433467)

FLOWTON ELMSETT ROAD TM 04 NE 6/112 Gates Farmhouse - II GV Farmhouse. Early C17, extended in 2 phases in C18 and mid C19. A 2-cell lobby entrance house of 1 storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers. An axial C17 chimney of red brick with diagonally-set square flues on a square plinth. Various small-pane casements and sashes of C19 and C20. Mid C19 4-panelled entrance door with good timber-framed entrance porch; diagonal beaded boarding and plaintiled gabled roof with undulating bargeboards. Small-pane side windows. The doorway has an arched head with pierced spandrels, supported on carved brackets. Plain timber-framing exposed internally; the storey-posts have jowls which support the upper-floor beams and then continue at the increased thickness up to wall-plate level - an unusual variation. Listing NGR: TM0761346532