Fyning House Old Fyning House The Bothy

Fyning House, Old Fyning House and the Bothy, situated in Rogate on Midhurst Road, comprise a complex of buildings in two separate ownerships.

Fyning House is a front range built in around 1730. It is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof and end panelled brick chimneystacks. The building has two storeys and attics with seven windows and four dormers. The windows are 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves. The central three windows are set within a slightly projecting pediment. The eaves feature a dentilled cornice above a parapet, rusticated quoins in stucco, and a brick stringcourse. The central porch is supported by Doric columns and has a triglyph frieze. The rear elevation has two gables. An early 20th-century single-storey addition of two bays extends to the north. The interior contains a decorated plaster ceiling over the staircase.

Old Fyning House is an L-shaped range of late 16th or early 17th-century origin with 18th and early 19th-century alterations. The south front displays English bond brickwork, with the left-hand side dating to the 16th century and the right-hand side to the early 19th century. It has a tiled roof, one storey and attics, six windows including three Venetian-type windows in round-headed surrounds, two 16-pane dormers, and a half-glazed door. The north front has a ground floor of colourwashed stone with marble and brick dressings, and a tile-hung first floor with four gables. The roof is tiled with three brick chimneystacks. The ground floor has four metal-framed cambered casements and a door case with a six-panelled door beneath a flat wooden hood with brackets. An 18th-century brick extension to the east, altered around 1830, has a hipped tiled roof, modillion eaves cornice, a cambered sash to the first floor, a fixed sash to the ground floor, and a cambered doorcase with a plank door. A Hand in Hand Insurance mark dated around 1820 is visible on this extension.

The interior of Old Fyning House is timber-framed with an angled Queen strut roof. A late 16th or early 17th-century stone four-centred arched fireplace with chamfered piers and a wooden lintel survives, though it has a 20th-century brick fire surround. There are three plank cupboard doors and a spine beam with a 1½ inch chamfer and lamb's tongue stops. At least one upright post retains an 18th-century profile to the jowl. The eastern extension contains an early 19th-century (circa 1820–30) reeded wooden fireplace with a cast-iron ducks-nest grate. The roof features staggered purlins set diagonally with chamfers, tie beams and a ridgepiece. This wing probably originally served an agricultural or storage function before later adaptation to accommodation. In the late 19th century, a game larder and apple store were built against this wing.

The Bothy, attached to the main house via a brick ash, dates to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is an unheated sleeping plank for seasonal workers, constructed as a single storey of red brick with grey headers, and has a hipped tiled roof. Two cambered casements and door cases with pediments on brackets are visible, along with a round-headed doorcase. The building appears adjacent to Old Bell Cottage, which is not of special interest.