Description

ST ERVAN RUMFORD
SW 87 SE
3/182 Rumford House including front
garden area wall and gate-piers

GV II

House. Circa 1830-40, extended in late C19 and again in mid to late C20. Dressed
slate rubble. Bitumenised scantle slate roof with gable ends; the later C19 extension
to the left has a rag slate roof with gabled end. Red brick stacks at the gable
ends; the axial stack to left of centre was the gable end stack of the original
house.
Plan: Double depth plan. The original house has 2 principal front rooms with a
central entrance hall between probably containing the staircase at the back. The
rooms at the back are probably smaller service rooms. Later in the C19 a 1-room wide
double depth extension was built at the left end. In circa mid to late C20 a 2-
storey extension was built at the back.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 1:3 window front. The symmetrical 3-windows to the right is
the original house, its windows have flat red brick arches with a granite keystones
and slate cills and later C19 4-pane sashes. Central doorway with flat red brick
arch with granite keystone and late C19 panelled and glazed door with a rectangular
overlight. The 2 storey 1-window late C19 addition to the right has an original 16-
pane sash on the ground floor and a C19 two-light 12-pane casement on the first floor
with segmental brick arches and slate cills. The right hand side is blank and the
left hand side has various C19 sashes and a plank door.
At the back a 2 storey C20 rendered flat-roof extension.
Interior not inspected, but may have C19 joinery such as doors, chimney-pieces and
the original staircase.
Including the late C19 front garden area walls with rounded corners left and right
and rustic quartz capping ramped up to the central gateway also with rustic quartz
capping. The late C19 or early C20 wooden gate has curved bracing above the mid
rail.

Listing NGR: SW8971570155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507484

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