Description

TL 85 NW CHEVINGTON WHEPSTEAD

5/37 Ruffins Farmhouse
(Formerly listed under General)
14.7.55
II

Farmhouse, late C15 with C16 and C17 alterations. 3-cell Wealden type open hall
house; 2 storeys; 4 windows. Timber-framed, rendered; 2 jettied ends each with
4 brackets supporting upper floor. Hipped plaintiled roof with axial chimneys
of red brick. C20 2-light casements. Panelled entrance door at rear. 2-bay
hall with open truss having square crownpost with 4 braces and moulded base and
cap; cambered tie-beam with massive strutted unchamfered arch-braces; hewn
pilasters with moulded capitals beneath braces. Chimney backing onto cross-
passage, and first floor structure with ogee-mouldings inserted into hall
c.1550. Chimney stack added to C15 parlour, and second parlour block and rear
staircase wing added C17.

Listing NGR: TL8080558565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586376

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014