Rudway Barton

Rudway Barton is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is built from a mix of cob and stone, rendered, and has a gable-ended slate roof. Originally, it had a three-room, cross-passage layout. The left end features an external stack for the original parlour, while there is an external rear lateral stack for the hall, which has a stair turret lit by a small window nearby. The lower end has a former end stack that is now axial, and there is a right-hand end stack, with all stacks having brick shafts. The building is two storeys high.

The front of the farmhouse has a symmetrical arrangement of five windows, all of which are three-light, barred casement windows on the upper floor. To the left, there is a lean-to porch, and the main entrance is located under a moulded canopy supported by plain timber. The door is a 19th-century panelled door with a 20th-century addition. The ground floor features three-light windows.

Inside, the left-hand room contains a very large fireplace with dressed trap jambs and a chamfered, unchamfered timber lintel, along with a small inglenook window and a pointed arch leading to a side area. There is a blocked smoking chamber to the right and some cross beams from the 18th century. A rear door from the 18th century has horizontal planking on the inside and vertical planking on the outside, with the lintel and jambs displaying scratch moulding. The roof consists of seven bays with crossed principals that are morticed and side-pegged at the apex, featuring side beams from the 17th or 18th century, with a later roof covering the entire structure.