Rundle House

Rundle House is a house dating from the late 14th century, with significant construction around 1400 and 1500. It is timber framed and originally plastered, with a red brick front and some exposed timber framing. The building is two storeys high and has a complex plan, topped with a pegtile roof.

The west end features a jettied carriage arch structure with exposed timber framing, a jettied gable, original cusped bargeboards, and attached timber shafts with moulded capitals and bases. A blocked first-floor window is also present. The central section has a parapetted front of Flemish bond brickwork dating from the early 19th century, extending into a projecting block that incorporates a 20th-century extension. This central unit has a roof gabled to the east and hipped to the west. A moulded brick cornice runs along the top. The centre block contains one double-hung sash window with small panes, one casement window with small panes under a brick arch, over a projecting flat-topped porch with pair of doors, and a pair of deeper double-hung sash windows. The west projecting block has three casement windows with small panes, two similar windows without glazing bars, and a canted bay window with a hipped pegtile roof.

The interior retains much exposed timber framing. The carriage arch is one bay of a former two-bay structure from around 1400, featuring a cross-quadrant crown post, halved and bridled scarf joists, centre tenoned floor joists, and a former window in the front corner of the flank before the "hall's" front face. The hall is a two-bay structure with an off-centre cross-quadrant crown post, with only the wider bay blackened by soot. Both this truss and the truss to the west, adjoining the carriage arch, were originally open trusses. On the ground floor, a horizontally moulded timber with a crenellated head is visible in the wider bay, and a simpler moulded timber crosses the western truss. The narrow bay features clamp timbers with hollow mouldings, likely supporting a floor. The eastern unit is a three-bay crosswing, formerly gabled to the front and hipped to the rear. It was jettied on the front and has a simple crown post roof and heavy timber framing incorporating a service door head, likely dating from the 15th century. Behind the "hall" is a long service wing with jowled posts and a heavily framed block at the south end, a probable former kitchen.