Ruyton Hall

Ruyton Hall is a house dated 1574, which was remodeled and extended around the late 18th century to early 19th century, with further alterations made later. The building features rendered brick and likely some timber-framing, topped with slate gabled and hipped roofs behind parapets, and has brick axial stacks. The house has a large square plan, with the west elevation extended by a wing to the north and an additional service wing to the northeast added in the 19th century. The central stair hall and principal rooms are located on the south and west sides.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a three-one-two bay east front. The left side has three bays with two gables and a parapet between, featuring 19th-century three- and four-light casements and a 20th-century gabled porch on the left. The right bay is recessed with a parapet, leading to a two-bay single-storey service wing with a hipped roof. The south front has three bays with sash windows that include glazing bars, and large tripartite windows with pediments on the ground floor, with the right window converted to a French casement. The west elevation has six bays with 12 and 9-pane sashes, and the parapets of the south and west fronts are adorned with later iron balustrades at intervals. The north side features a gable at the center, a brick wing on the right, and a single-storey hipped roof wing on the left.

Inside, the house showcases late 18th to early 19th-century joinery, including panelled doors and an open-well, open-string staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail wreathed over a column newel. There is a 18th-century chimneypiece in the dining room, while the other chimneypieces appear to have been installed later. The room to the right of the entrance hall has chamfered ceiling beams. A large carved timber, incorporated into the roof structure as a tie-beam, features rich carvings of trailing vines and is dated 1574, along with the initials T.K. and E.K.