Rhotterridge Farmhouse

Rhotteridge Farmhouse is an early to mid-18th century farmhouse situated without Melksham, near Lower Woodrow. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with a stone slate, half-hipped roof and a central brick stack. The building is two storeys high with four windows on the front elevation. A central door is flanked by two two-light, cyma-mullioned casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor has four similar two-light, cyma-mullioned casement windows. The three bays to the right feature brickwork with rubblestone footings, and a corner section is constructed of rubblestone with quoins. A straight joint and different brickwork indicates a left bay that’s separate. The rear elevation has a blocked central door and 20th-century casement windows to either side and on the first floor. Straight joints in the brickwork demonstrate that the end bays were built later than the central two bays.

Inside, the ceiling beams are chamfered with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A room on the first floor to the left contains a bolection moulded fireplace. A door in a 20th-century extension incorporates reused painted glass from the 1920s, created by Dora Carrington. The house appears to have undergone at least two phases of construction, representing an early 18th-century rebuilding of an earlier building.