RUDCHESTER - List Entry

  • Description

    "House. Late C13 core, remodelled and extended late C18 and early C19. Dressed stone with plinth. Welsh slate roof. L-plan with later buildings filling re-entrant angle. Gothick style. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Half-glazed, Tudor-arched door with Gothick tracery in moulded surroundwith quatrefoils in the corner blocks, cornice over. Pointed- arched windows with intersecting glazing bars, those on ground floor in raised surrounds. On 1st floor to left of door a small C14 window with cusped ogee head....Walls in rooms at south-east corner are c. 5 ft. thick. This part was a tower; its parapet and a stone water spout remain in roof space; on ground floor a large fireplace with moulded surround, the lintel carved with 2 shields and 2 crocketed swags; on the 1st floor a C13 or C14 window embrasure with Caernarvon lintel. Thick walling continues to west of tower....."
  • Owner

    Historic England
  • Source

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  • Further information

    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1154705
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years ago
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