Ruckman'S Farm House

Ruckman's Farm House is a house dating from the 17th century, with significant additions in the 1890s and early 1900s by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for Miss Iyell, and further additions of a music room in 1902. The construction is a timber frame with a brick core, featuring a red brick base, a colourwashed exterior on the right side, sandstone rubble on a square bay to the right of centre, and the ground floor of the right-hand wing. The main range has tile hanging above and a music room extension to the left incorporating red brick angle quoins and tile-on-edge dressings. The roof is half-hipped with Horsham slab tiles to the centre, and hipped tiled roofs to the ends. The house follows an E-shaped plan, with extensions to the ends enclosing an entrance courtyard.

The central section is two storeys high with coved eaves, while the gabled square bay to the right of centre rises to three storeys. Two-storey extensions are present, stepping down to a single storey on the right, with the music room being one storey over a sloping basement where the ground falls away. The building has several stacks, including two diagonal stacks on an offset plinth to the front, left of the centre, with part crow-stepped details and tile-on-edge decorations. An overhanging gable is present on the roof to the left.

The front of the house features three, 3-light first-floor windows, two with diamond-pane glazing, along with two ground-floor windows and a continuous 5-light window across each floor of the gabled bay to the right of centre. A ribbed door is positioned to the left, flanked by single diamond-pane lights under a flat hood. A gable end projects to the right, incorporating a four-light window on the return wall, a projecting first-floor level, a square bay window on the ground floor, and a four-light, leaded window to the first floor of the gable end. A door is included in a flanking light, with a window below. A flat-roofed extension to the right has two windows. A pentice extension connects to the Music Room via a corridor, projecting to the left end, and features a tile-on-edge band to the basement and deep brick decorated eaves above.

The left return front features two, 32-light, cambered-head, glazing-bar sashes to the first floor within a brick break, and two further sashes in the basement. The rear of the house displays a triple gable elevation with continuous leaded glazing at the second and first floor levels. A central recess on the ground floor now contains plate glass fenestration and doors. An external wooden staircase and balcony are also present on the rear, along with a corridor connecting to the house on the left, incorporating a square, crow-stepped stack. A round arched door in a brick surround leads to a basement storey.