Description

BERE FERRERS
SX 46 NW
2/12 Rumleigh Farmhouse

4.1.79

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 with C17, C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Rendered rubble
walls. Asbestos slate roof gabled to left end and rear wings, hipped to right end.
Rendered brick stack at left gable end and axial stack to right of centre.
Projecting rendered rubble gable stacks to 2 rear wings.
Originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan lower room probably to the right. 2
storey porch at front of passage may have been added in C17 and has small integral
room to right. Room to its left also has external access. Extended by 2 rear
heated wings in C17 and C18 behind lower room and hall respectively. C19 rear
outshuts.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with 2 storey porch at right of centre. To
left and right of it on 1st floor are circa early C20 casements with glazing bars, 2
light to the right, 3 light to the left. Porch 1st floor window is circa late C19 4
pane sash. Ground floor windows to left of porch are circa mid C19 tripartites
sashes without glazing bars. On ground floor to right of porch is early-mid C19 20-
pane sash. Porch has wide round-headed C16 volcanic stone doorway with hollow and
roll moulding and double ball stops probably moved from front of passage. In the
recessed spandrels are carved quatrefoils. Inner porch door is C20 plank and
glazed. The porch has a slate seat on the left-hand side and a small room on the
right-hand side. Immediately to the left of the porch is a depressed 4-centred
arched chamfered granite doorway with some of its right-hand jamb covered by the
porch. At rear is wing to left and at centre; the latter has a small chamfered
granite framed window on the first floor at the gable end.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX4482768233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399427

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas