Farmbuilding Group North West Of Rugley Farmhouse

This farmbuilding group, located north-west of Rugley Farmhouse, was developed in the early 19th century, incorporating an earlier 18th-century cottage which was remodelled. A barn with an attached engine house was added around 1840. The buildings are constructed of squared tooled stone, with some rubble stone and cut dressings; the engine house and barn have tooled-and-margined stone dressings, and a chimney stack of brick in English Garden Wall Bond (one brick high, with three brick ties) on a tooled-and-margined stone base. Most roofs are covered with Welsh slate, except for the east range which has synthetic blue slates, and there are brick stacks to the stable and cottage.

The farmbuildings are arranged around a former foldyard, originally open to the south, with ranges built in the early 19th century. The side ranges each have a short south-west wing. A barn, with the engine house attached to its east side, runs north from the centre of the north range, while the cottage extends the north range eastwards.

The elevations facing the former foldyard are now largely obscured by later structures. The north range has a pair of segmental arches positioned left of centre, with boarded doors and part-slatted windows on the first floor. The east range features a pair of segmental arches, a six-pane sash window, and a boarded door.

The north range’s projecting three-bay barn has boarded doors and part-slatted windows within chamfered alternating-block surrounds. The engine house, set back to the left, has similar openings, a hip-ended roof, and a tall, tapering stack to the rear. The east range shows stable doors and slit vents; the south-west wing is a stable with a boarded door and shaped vents. The west range has part-slatted windows and a boarded door, with boarded double doors under a timber lintel in the west end of the wing.

The cottage has a boarded door flanked by two-light mullioned windows, and a corresponding window in a gabled dormer on the left. It has coped gables and ridge and reduced right-end stacks. An outbuilding, linking to the farmbuilding group, has a boarded door in a chamfered alternating-block surround, and a stable door.

Inside the stable, there is a stall partition with a wrought-iron openwork top above a boarded lower section, positioned between cast-iron standards with moulded finials.

A late 19th-century cowhouse, 20th-century covered yards that now occupy the former foldyard, and Dutch barn ranges to the north are not considered to be of special interest.