Rigdens

Rigdens is an 18th-century house located on the east side of The Square in Elham. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The house has a central-entry plan, is two storeys tall, and includes a cellar. It has a chamfered brick plinth on a stone base, a plat band, and boxed eaves, topped with a gabled roof and red brick gable-end stacks.

The front facade has a regular arrangement of three windows, consisting of two sixteen-pane sashes and a central twelve-pane sash, all in open boxes with segmental heads. The ground floor has similar windows. The central door is recessed and features six sunk panels, accompanied by a rectangular three-light fanlight above. The doorcase is adorned with reeded pilasters and a frieze, topped with a flat hood.

To the left of the main structure is a single-storey addition that is set back from the front elevation. This addition is made of flint with brick dressings and has a hipped lean-to roof, along with a sixteen-pane sash window with a segmental head. At the rear, there are two conjoined two-storey brick additions; the one on the right is shorter and has a plain tile roof hipped to the rear, while the left addition has a roof hipped to both the left and right. The left addition features a sixteen-pane ground-floor sash window with a segmental head and a boarded door, also with a segmental head.

The interior has only been partly inspected, but it includes a staircase with moulded balusters and scrolled cheeks, a rendered fireplace with a wooden bressumer in the left ground-floor room, and chamfered beams in the cellar. The ground-floor window of the rear left addition has a reeded inner architrave and panelled shutters.