Listing Text:

YALDING BENOVER ROAD
TQ 74 NW
(north-east side)
4/54 Rugmer Farmhouse
25.8.1977
GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early-to-mid C17, with C19 facade and mid-to-late C20 addition. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in stretcher bond to left end, weatherboarded to centre, and red brick in Flemish bond to right. Broadly-spaced studding with stretcher bond infilling to right gable end. First floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 timber-framed bays and central stack bay, with mid-to-late C20 single-bay addition toleft. 2 storeys and garret. Brick plinth to left end, stone and brickto rest. Half-hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack to right of centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 small two-light casements; one towards each end and one to left of centre. Boarded door towards rear of left
gable end, and another to right gable end. Rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered axial beams to ground and first floors. First-floor tension braces to front wall and to partitions. Blocked four-light diamond mullion window to front of left bay and similar three-light to right. clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, vertical queen struts to collars at gable ends, and curved windbraces. Edge-halved wall- plate scarf joint. Broad floorboards. Marked on O.S. map as Rugmore Farm.(1)

Wealden house with formerly open 2-bay hall and highly unusual lower-end plan.(2)

Historic England archive material: BF040115 RUGMER HILL FARMHOUSE, YALDING File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/753 Labelled sheet of drawings of Rugmer Hill Farmhouse, Yalding, with a ground-floor plan, a cross-section, and a sketch elevation of the rear wall of the hall RCH01/048/01/754 Labelled sheet of drawings of Rugmer Hill Farmhouse, Yalding, with a crown-post elevation, tie-beam and cornice profiles, and perspective sketches of a scarf joint, a tie-beam, a rafter end, a cornice, supports, and the jetty construction RCH01/048/02/017 Sheet of plans of the lower ends of five Kent houses This is figure eighteen in the book, and shows the Cloth Hall, Smarden; Little Bursted Farmhouse, Upper Hardres; Rugmer Hill Farmhouse, Yalding; the Paper Mill, Benenden, and Gore Court, Pluckley. RCH01/048/02/083 Sheet of sections from two Kent houses with offset crown posts This is figure sixty-six in the book, and it shows Court Lodge Farmhouse, East Peckham, and Rugmer Hill Farmhouse, Yalding.

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.