Rumwood Court

Rumwood Court is a house, now converted into flats, dating from 1599, with substantial restoration in the 19th century, and further additions in 1896 and alterations in the 1950s. The building is timber framed with plaster infilling, and has a plain tile roof. The main range consists of two or possibly three unequal bays. A projecting porch faces the road to the left, with a projecting bay window to the right of the porch. A broad projecting wing extends to the right. Additions from 1896 are located to the left end and at the rear. The house stands on a stone plinth, and has two storeys, attic space, and a cellar. The timber framing is close-studded. A moulded fillet runs along the eaves of the main range, with restored close-studded coving above. Strapwork decoration is visible at the bases of the principal posts of the porch and wing. The porch and right wing project at the first floor and attic levels on moulded bressumers with carved brackets. The eaves of the porch are raised above the attic jetty and then jettied again. The gable over the bay window is also jettied, with a moulded bressumer and brackets. The building features carved bargeboards and a pendant, dated 1599. The roof extends to meet the 1896 addition on the left. A brick stack with two fillets stands on the front slope of the roof in the narrow right-end bay of the main range. The windows are irregularly placed and have ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed glazing. An eight-light oriel window with side lights is situated on the first floor of the porch, supported by carved brackets, and has a moulded cill, jambs, and head. There is a three-light mullioned attic window. The bay window has a stone base and an eighteen-light ground-floor window with side lights; the head of the window is higher than the jetty of the wing, and the first floor is close-studded. A three-light mullioned window is set within the gable. A cross window is immediately to the right of the bay, and a small, inserted three-light window is on the right end of the main range. The wing includes a ten-light rectangular oriel window to the first floor, on carved brackets, with side lights and frieze windows on either side, the left side returning along the left side of the wing. A similar canted bay window is on the ground floor, also with frieze windows returning to the left. An eight-light attic window is present. There are various other windows on the right side of the wing. A 16th-century ribbed outer door is located in an architrave with moulded jambs within the porch. The inner doorway has moulded jambs with decorative chamfer stops. A small gabled bay and a gabled cross-wing were added to the left end in 1896, matching the existing style. The interior is said to contain an altered late 16th-century fireplace and panelling, though it has not been inspected. The building was illustrated, with measured details, in Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork of the 16th and 17th Centuries by William Bliss Saunders, 1883.