RUDHALL HOUSE

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Ross-on-Wye at List entry 1099663. This entry was removed from the List on 24 September 2024.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 September 2024, to remove references to the duplicate list entry, to correct typos and to reformat to current standards. The GIS triangle depiction was moved slightly from SO6255225390 to SO6255225388, thus placing it on the boundary between the three parishes of Brampton Abbotts, Weston under Penyard and Ross-on-Wye which passes through the building. The grid reference was removed from the Details text.

BRAMPTON ABBOTTS CP

SO 62 NW

4/5

RUDHALL

Rudhall House

25.2.66

I

Manor house. C14 core extensively remodelled during mid- to late C16 and further remodelled and rebuilt after fire damage during C17, further late C18 to early C19 alterations, C20 restoration. Timber-framed core with sandstone rubble plinth largely refaced with sandstone rubble and brick and partly rendered, squared and coursed sandstone rubble refacing to south front, tiled roofs. Former hall and cross-wing aligned north-south with cross-wing at south end now obscured by later additions, extending during C16 to west at south end and further additions to north and to west of hall range during C17, other additions to east of north end; main entrance toward centre of west front of hall range, main axial stack to hall and further gable-end stacks and lateral stack to south front. Two storeys with attics; west front: hall range with forward (west) projecting wing to right; hall range. Three gables with decorative bargeboards and finials and three-light casement windows, two glazing bar sash windows to left and Venetian window to ground floor only to right of early C17 two-storey stone porch, paired Ionic pilasters with entablature to both storeys, and capped by Rudhall crest flanked by strapwork and finials, three-light window to upper floor, elliptical headed doorway. Small stone turret of three stages with string courses and parapet projects slightly at north-west corner of hall range; projecting wing to right with jettied upper floor, three gables with decorative bargeboards and finials and decorative tie-beams, three glazing bar sash windows below gables each flanked by semi-circular headed niches, and projecting slightly with panelled and coved soffit, one four-light mullioned window and one three-light window set closely together to left of similar central four-light window add similar three-light window to right. Close-studded framing revealed to north front of west wing and to east gable end, with decorative members to north front of west wing; framing of east gable end reveals the differing stages of the roof-line.

Interior: The smoke-blackened C14 roof of the earlier hall remains largely intact and was possibly of three bays, it retains pairs of cusped wind-braces and curved braces to collar. The C16 roof of the west wing has chamfered members and swept wind-braces. The interior retains many late C16 and C17 features, inserted ceiling in former hall with decorative ribbing and pendants; section of linenfold type panelling to north side and C17 panelling to south, main staircase with robust turned balusters and square newels, altered on return to landing on upper floor; C17 panelling with dolphin frieze and elaborate overmantel to fireplace with two stages of three semi-circular headed enriched arches in central room of west wing. Remaining rooms retain fittings, chamfered and moulded ceiling beams and fragments of panelling. There was probably originally a chapel at the west end of the west wing; ceiling beams and the roof truss in this section reveal that the building did extend further in this direction but the slender C19 shaft supporting the higher part of the ceiling in the ground floor room is
probably C19.

The house is situated on the crossing point of three parishes - Brampton Abbotts, Weston under Penyard and Ross-on-Wye.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

154264

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 24-25
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 81
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 55

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