The Rucketts

SO 34 NE 4/116

STAUNTON-ON-WYE CP The Rucketts

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably C17 and C18 with earlier origins and later alterations. Sandstone rubble plinth and timber-frame with brick and plaster infill, partly roughcast. Sandstone and Welsh slate roofs, partly half- hipped, with external roughcast stacks and off-ridge stack. T-plan with cross- wing at west end. Cross-wing has two bays; main range perhaps four bays. Main range has one storey and attic; cross-wing has cellar, two storeys and attic. South elevation has 1:2 windows, 8-pane late C19 window to gable front to left and two gabled dormers with 2-light casements to main range. Gable has half-hipped roof, large external stack to left and glazed C20 door above deep cellar and plinth to right at top of stairs. Main range has four irregularly placed C19 casements and ledged door to left-hand side set in roughcast. Rear elevation of main range has exposed framing, three square panels high from cill to wall-plate. Cross-wing has four panels between deep plinth and wall- plate with late C20 elements to gable frame. Interior of cross-wing has ceiling beams with lamb's tongue run-out chamfer stops. (RCHM, Vol III, p 187).

Listing NGR: SO3635245174