Ruewood Farmhouse

Ruewood Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, that dates from the mid-16th century and was extended around 1654, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with rendered infill and partial red brick rebuilding, which is painted on the front, and has a concrete tile roof. The original structure consists of two framed bays, which may have been open to the roof, and was extended and converted into a three-unit baffle-entry plan around 1654. The left bay was largely rebuilt in brick in the mid-19th century. The building is one storey with an attic.

The framing includes close studding with a long straight tension brace in the 16th-century part, and three square panels from the cill to the wall-plate in the 17th-century addition, featuring V-struts from the collar to the right gable end. There are late 19th-century casement windows to the left and right of a timber-framed porch dated 1654, with the left window having a segmental head and a fixed-light window to the right. Gabled eaves dormers are positioned directly above the casements, with the left dormer dating from the 19th century and the right from the late 20th century. The position of an infilled two-light window is visible immediately to the right of the right casement. The porch has a 20th-century outer door, and the framing shows the positions of infilled windows on the side walls. A 19th-century red brick ridge stack is located directly in line with the porch, along with an external end stack to the left.

The interior could not be inspected during the resurvey in January 1986, but it was noted to have a deep-chamfered spine beam in the ground-floor room to the right of the porch. It is said that the remains of a hearth were discovered in the room to the left of the porch. There is a late 19th-century gabled brick addition at right angles to the rear, which was extended in the 20th century and is not of special architectural interest.