Rumburgh Place Farmhouse

Former farmhouse, dating from the 16th century, with alterations in the mid-19th century. It is two storeys high. The structure has a timber frame, now faced in white brick, and a slate roof. There are two chimney stacks of white brick – one internal and one at the end of the building. The front has three windows, each a three-light mullion-and-transome design. These windows have pintle hinges and segmental arches to their frames and surrounds. Flat pilasters are located at the ends of the front, and a slight projection in the centre features a half-glazed entrance door within a segmental arched surround. A 1½-storey lean-to extends along the rear, not entirely of one date and encased in 19th-century red brick. The interior now has a two-cell form with a central entry, and a stair with a half-cellar below. The rear wall of the stair bay contains two ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, one above the other, which are now blocked. The stair has been at least resited. On each side of the entrance lobby are very fine square-headed doorways with ogee-moulded architraves and jambs. Another doorway of the same style is blocked in the wall to the right of the stair, and two further similar doorways lead off the upper landing, although one has been resited. Their quality does not match the simpler timbering of the rest of the house, suggesting they may be a fragment of a larger building. The main rooms have high ceilings with plain exposed beams and joists; the internal chimney-stack is a later addition. Part of the lean-to at the rear, formerly used as a dairy, appears to have initially been a separate building.