Pypers

Pypers is a house located on Church Road in Rudgeway, dating from the late 18th century, with early 19th-century additions and further modifications around 1930, all in a similar style. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a rendered and scored wing on the right to match the ashlar, and features lead and slate roofs with stacks on either side of the main block.

The main block has side wings that were originally flanking pavilions and is designed in a classical style. It consists of two storeys and an attic, with three windows, all of which are early 19th-century sashes with 12 panes, and three dormers with four panes and segmental heads. The central Ionic portico has an open segmental pediment with dentillation, double fielded and panelled doors, a large fanlight, and a moulded arch that rises from impost blocks, featuring an acanthus keystone, plinth, cornice, parapet, and coping.

The c.1930 wings on the right and left project forward and each has two storeys; the right wing has four windows across and the left has three, all symmetrically placed and of various sizes, with glazing bars, cornice, parapet, coping, and an end stack on the right. The left side features a loggia with three pairs of Ionic columns, a dentilled cornice, a balustrade with corner and central dies, and two French windows.

At the rear of the main block, all windows match those on the front, and there are two-storey canted bays on each side with glazing bars. Inside, the entrance hall includes a curved, open string staircase with slender bobbin-turned balusters and a banded mahogany wreathed handrail that wraps around the first-floor landing. All doors are framed in wooden architraves with open scrolled segmental pediments and inner panelling. The interior also features a wooden fireplace with acanthus and flower carvings, cornices, and ground floor rooms that have Adam-style wooden fireplaces and window shutters.