Rushmore House

Rushmore House is a house that has been converted into a shop and residence. It dates from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and further changes in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, covered in roughcast render and plaster, and has a roof made of grey slate with gault stacks.

The main part of the house faces southeast and features an internal stack at the left end, with a rear wing added on the right side in the 18th century. The left end has a rear wing that is from the 16th century or earlier, which has a stack at the junction. The house is two storeys high with an attic.

On the left side, there is a late 19th or early 20th-century shopfront with splayed windows arranged in a 1-2-1 and 1-2 light pattern, and recessed double half-glazed doors with overlights. Below the dentilled and moulded fascia, there are three four-centred arches with carved spandrels. On the right side, there is a 20th-century shopfront with a single window.

The first floor features three 18th-century sash windows with 12 lights, made with crown glass. A moulded cornice and plain parapet run along the right side and the rear of the right wing. The right return has early 19th-century double three-panel doors and a full-length tented canopy that has been repaired with felt. On the first floor, there are two 18th or early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights. The roof is hipped.

The rear elevation of the right wing has one 18th-century sash window with 12 lights on each floor, and two more on the upper right elevation of the left wing. Most of the timber frame in the rear left wing is hidden by interior finishes, but one binding beam with double ogee mouldings is visible, joined to wall posts at each end, with blocked mortices indicating where axial beams were once present. The rear right wing contains an early 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with turned newels, a painted wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and scrolled tread-ends. Each floor of the staircase has an early to mid-19th-century half-glazed door with nine lights, and on the first-floor landing, there is an early 19th-century semi-elliptical arch.