Ruffins Farmhouse

Ruffins Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a three-cell Wealden type open hall house design, is two storeys high, and has four windows. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with two jettied ends supported by four brackets each. It has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles and axial chimneys made of red brick. The windows are 20th-century two-light casements, and there is a panelled entrance door located at the rear. Inside, the two-bay hall includes an open truss with a square crown post supported by four braces, along with a cambered tie-beam featuring massive strutted unchamfered arch-braces. The hall also has hewn pilasters with moulded capitals beneath the braces. A chimney backs onto the cross-passage, and the first-floor structure includes ogee-mouldings that were added around 1550. Additionally, a chimney stack was added to the 15th-century parlour, and a second parlour block along with a rear staircase wing was added in the 17th century.