Rammells House

Rammells House is a building that now serves as a school boarding house for Cranbrook School. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with a front block added in 1882-83 by architects Ernest Newton and W W Nere, and an extension made around 1939. The front block is constructed of red brick, with the ground floor rendered and accented by red brick pilaster strips. It features a moulded wooden eaves cornice beneath a plain tiled roof, which has very tall, slightly projecting end stacks and a similar stack off-centre to the right. The building has three storeys and a two-window front, with wooden casements on the left and a wide three-storey octagonal bay on the right. Continuous windows surround the building, with lattice glazing over glazing bar casements on both the first and second floors. A deep pentice tiled hood covers the ground floor, which has an octagonal bay on the left, mirroring that on the right, flanking a central arched doorway with side-lights, a half-glazed door, and a low arched transom light. At the rear, there is a half-hipped 2½-storey timber-framed and weather-boarded wing, which is part of the original late 16th or early 17th-century house. Inside, the staircase remains, featuring a two-flight return with turned bulbous balusters, along with various semi-inglenook and decorated fire surrounds.