Ruckman's Farm House
RUCKMAN'S FARM HOUSE, RUCKMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189533
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ruckman's Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- RUCKMAN'S FARM HOUSE, RUCKMANS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189533
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ruckman's Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUCKMAN'S FARM HOUSE, RUCKMANS LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RUCKMAN'S FARM HOUSE, RUCKMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abinger
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13281 36701
Details
ABINGER C.P. RUCKMANS LANE TQ 13NW
8/69 Ruckman's Farm House 11/11/66 GV II
House. C17 with additions of 1894 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Miss Iyell, further additions (Music Room) of 1902. Timber frame and brick core with red brick below, colourwashed to right, with sandstone rubble on square bay to right of centre and to ground floor of right hand wing, tile hung above on main range. Music room extension to left of sandstone rubble with red brick angle quoins and tile-on- edge dressings. Half-hipped Horsham slab roof to centre, hipped tiled roofs to ends. E-shaped plan with extensions to ends enclosing entrance courtyard. Two storeys to centre with coved eaves, 3 storeys on gabled square-bay to right of centre. Two storey extensions dropping to single storey to right, Music Room one storey over sloping basement where ground drops away. Multiple stacks on cross ridge plinth to left, further stacks at junction with right hand wing and to rear. Oversailing gable on roof to left. Three, 3-light first floor windows, two to left diamond-pane, two windows to ground floor and one continuous 5-light window across each floor of the gabled bay to right of centre. Ribbed door to left with flanking diamond-pane single lights under flat hood. Gable end wing projects to right with one 4-light window on the return wall and a projecting first floor. Square bay window on ground floor. One 4-light, leaded, window to first floor of gable end, door in flanking light and window below. Two windows in flat roofed extension to right. Pentice extension to left connecting by a corridor to the Music Room, projecting to left end. Tile-on-edge band to basement, deep brick decorated eaves above. Two diagonal stacks on offset plinth to front left of centre with part crow- stepped and decorated with tile-on-edge. Round arched door in brick surround to left in basement storey. Left hand return front:- Two 32-light, cambered-head, glazing-bar sashes to first floor in brick break, two further sashes in basement. Rear - two double doors, glazed, under fixed casements, external wooden staircase and balcony. Corridor connects to house on the left with square crowstepped stack. Gable to left on house with leaded fenestration. Rear of house:- Triple gable elevation with continuous leaded glazing at second and first floor levels. Central recess on ground floor now with plate glass fenestration and doors. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.391. LUTYENS: THE WORK OF THE ENGLISH ARCHITECT SIR EDWIN LUTYENS (1889-1944) Catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain 1981 pp.85-192. EDWIN LUTYENS: Architectural Monographs 6 (Academy Edns) (1979) p.102. EDWIN LUTYENS: Architect Laureate by R. Gradridge (1981) pp.11-13.
Listing NGR: TQ1328136701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lutyens, E, Architectural Monographs 6, (1979)
Gradidge, R, Edwin Lutyens Architect Laureate, (1981), 11-13
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 391
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981), 85-192
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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