Ruxton Court

Ruxton Court is a former manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with remodels occurring in the late 16th century and 17th century, and further alterations made in the 20th century. The building features part timber framing with a sandstone rubble plinth, wattle-and-daub infill, and a sandstone rubble west cross-wing with ashlar dressings, topped with a 20th-century tiled roof. Originally L-shaped, the house has a hall that runs east to west, with a rear wing to the southeast, a later cross-wing added to the west, and a projecting 17th-century porch on the north side, which is the entrance elevation.

The structure includes a large axial stack that backs onto a through-passage, an additional stack at the east gable end, and an external stack on the north gable of the cross-wing. The former hall is one storey with an attic and basement, featuring irregular window placements. There is a large gabled dormer on the west side with a 20th-century six-light glazing bar casement window, and two two-light casements below it, along with traces of two further blocked windows to the east. The framing on the west side has irregular square panels with a large swept brace rising from the sill, while the east side has close-studding above a girding rail and a high rubble plinth.

The west cross-wing is two storeys with an attic, featuring a moulded plinth and raised coped verges, and stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. It has single-light windows flanking the stack on the north gable end, partly blocked windows on the ground floor, a two-light window to the east, and a single light in the gable to the west. The two-storey gabled porch has a rubble ground floor, with a moulded bressummer and brackets that support the timber-framed upper storey. It features a 20th-century five-light window with a moulded sill and two brackets, remnants of a former oriel window, and a partly-glazed 20th-century door. The interior has been significantly altered, but the former three-bay hall retains four cruck trusses, with the central two remaining fairly intact, and an inserted floor with plain chamfered joists.