Farmstead, Rymes Place Farm

Farmstead: Dating to the third quarter of the 19th century, Rymes Place Farm is a red brick farmstead with variations on Flemish bond, yellow dressings to quoins and openings, tiled roofs, and a slated barn. The layout is L-shaped, comprising eleven bays on the right, two stories high, five bays to the left, single-story, and a further six bays at right angles including a barn end range. A right return facing the yard has stone steps with a simple iron handrail leading to a boarded granary door, a cat hole, and a cambered brick-on-end arch. Plain bargeboards define the gable.

The yard facade features a four-bay cartshed with timber posts having shaped caps on stone bases, a flat timber lintel, and a decorated horseshoe motif. To the left of the cartshed is a two-bay stable with a boarded door and an elliptical brick-on-end arch, followed by a semi-circular headed window with a stone sill – all windows follow this pattern. Further along is a two-bay wide elliptical-headed opening without a door, then a three-bay stable with windows flanking a boarded door. A five-bay, single-story cowhouse has alternating windows and doors, continuing the arched style. The first floor has six bays of alternating blind and glazed windows, with a shuttered pitch-hole above the second stable door. The cowhouse roof is constructed with two rows of club tiles and open eaves.

Inside the cartshed, a trimming for a sack-hoist is visible. The granary has collar trusses with struts to the floor, iron ties to the wallplate, and two pairs of purlins. The cowhouse features king-post roof trusses, bolts to the tie beam, tapered principal rafters, and purlins similar to those in the granary. A feed preparation room is located in a corner. Adjacent to the cowhouse is a lower, narrower three-bay shed opening onto a rick yard with a rafter roof. The left return has a six-bay formerly open-fronted shed, now infilled with weatherboarding, with a corrugated aluminium roof. The barn at the left end is set back with lean-to extensions on either side of a central porch, double-boarded doors and a weatherboarded gable.

A plain wall with buttresses to each bay division runs alongside the road, with a similar rear wall to what was formerly an open shed. The barn at the end projects forward; it includes slit air vents and a square, diamond-set owl hole in the gable. Inside the barn are five bays with internal buttresses and queen-post trusses with two pairs of purlins. The yard wall is largely intact. The barn was built first, with the rest of the farmstead constructed shortly afterward. This constitutes a very complete range of 19th-century farm buildings, carefully designed for architectural effect, demonstrating Group Value.