Great Rusham

EAST PENNARD CP MIDDLEWAY ROAD (North side) ST53NE 6/172 Great Rusham - - II

Farmhouse, now house. Medieval origin, altered C17 and extensively restored from derelict condition cl976. Coursed rubble, double-Roman tile roof, coped verges, ashlar stacks. Open-hall house, later floored with an added solar wing to form an L-plan. Single storey and attic, 4:1 bays, to left three 2-light stone-mullioned windows, a narrow 4-light window and a 4-light mullioned and transomed window, all renewed. Gabled porch to right, front-facing gable with a coping, finial, moulded 4-centred arch outer door opening, all constructed at the time of the restoration. Wing to right with 4-light stone-mullioned window on ground floor, label end two 2-light windows. Inside a 2-bay arch-braced cruck roof with smoke blackening; fireplace to room on first floor in a surround with moulded stone jambs and a 4-centred arch head of wood; ceiling beans, doorways, and further fireplaces. Although considerably rebuilt contains important early work inside. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST5851937890