By and large, Rudgwick has maintained an attractive built environment , of which we are very proud. It is the Preservation Society’s intention to do all it can to keep it that way! The gallery begins with a few of Rudgwick’s oldest houses (four dated by dendrochronology) and a selection of attractive houses, and includes all four pubs.
Warhams, our oldest house. The oldest part is under the dormer, and dates from between 1213 and 1249Snoxall, Bucks Green, 1337/8 (see Gallery: Bucks Green)Hoglands, The Haven, is in the far south of the parish. two cottages at one time, the building is from 1369/70Swains Cottage in Tismans Common dates from 1378, but some of its timbers are a little older, and the property was owned by Richard Sweyn in 1353Woes, opposite the King’s Head in Rudgwick’s Conservation Area, is the oldest house in the village itself. Of similar age to Swains Cottage, above, it hides its timbers behind more recent tile hangingThe King’s Head is situated in front of the churchyard, and opposite Woes. built in 1730s it may not have become a pub before the 1790sPart of Rudgwick’s Conservation Area, Little Ames and HencocksGarlands in The Haven is Rudgwick’s only grade 2* Listed house. it has a superb setting with barn conversions, orchard and brick walling. The house and the left crosswing are dated 1550, a smoke bay house. it was the centre of a big estate owned by the C19th Simmonds familyGibbons Mill in The Haven was last used in early C20th for h.e.p., but has a history back to the medieval period. Now a private house, the miller’s house chimney can also be seenCousins Farm in The Haven , relatively unspoilt group of old buildings, including barns and converted granary, is a late 2-bay hall house 1500, with chimney 1650 and wing on right C18th. Long association with Ireland familyan early C16th smoke bay cottage at Morgans Green (Haven)Bignor Farm, The Haven, illustrates very early connections between S Downs parishes up the Arun valley to summer pasture and pannage. May have been a weaver’s house with its many windows, and is from many periods, the oldest c1500The Blue Ship is a country pub in The Haven. A former smallholding called Bakers Shaw became an ale house in mid-C19th, when new wing added to c1600 dwellingThe Redhouse, Loxwood Road, c1630, is an attractive chimney house (i.e., built with chimney) with Georgian facade. The Butcher family is associated with this houseThe Fox Inn at Bucks Green was formerly a late C17th cottage (catslide roof) called Franktonhook, and a late C18th attached house, which was the parish Poor House before becoming an ale house. Only later was the cottage included in the pubHistoric Wanford Mill is now a private houseAttractive Victorian houses in the parish include Oakdene, Guildford Rd, built for the Walder family in their retirement from Mill Hill Farm, later a doctor’s houseLynwick House, sheltered under the wooded ridge, was for centuries the home of the Butcher family, then gentrified in Victorian times, lived in by John Aungier who built up the Lynwick estateWoodsomes Farm is alsosheltered under the ridge off Lynwick Street. It has a ‘model farm’ created for John Aungier’s Sussex herd, now one of several dairy farms inthe Harrison partnership. The house was originally a 3-bay chimney house c1650Pallinghurst House (now Rikkyo School) was a grander Victorian mansion for Erwin Schumacher by J Parnell & Sons, Rugby, 1898-1902. Schumacher headed the London offices of Wogau & Co, trading with Russia until the RevolutionGeorgian Tisman’s House was part of Pallinghurst Estate for many yearsBarnsfold, c1690, once two cottages, and earlier a farm in its own right, had been part of Tismans Farm before it was joined with PallinghurstFor most of its history, The Mucky Duck Inn was The Cricketers, built on its newly enclosed common allotment in 1855 to replace the Pig Inn (Old House) next door; in the hands of the Songhurst family for most of the rest of the centuryLower Barnsfold is’the last house in Rudgwick’ on the pre-turnpike track to Alfold via Hook StreetExfold Farm has Listed barns as well as the house. it overlooks the Arun on a prominent bluff. Originally c1420, rebuilt c1680. ‘-fold’ indicates early settlement siteClose to Exfold is the tiny St John’s church, opened in 1913, now celebrating it’s centenery as a Tisman Common mission room, and still open for worshipRowhook Farm (once Blakes), on the far east side of Rudgwick is on the parish boundary, also the line of Roman Stane Street. Not many householders can boast that! Possibly 1650, but re-modelled in 1930s as attractive house. Barn also C17thOpposite is Chequered Oak House (Stringersland), also C17th with crosswing c1900The Chequers Inn is a former early C17th cottage which became a pub in1798. The extension in corrugated iron is an eccentric additionNorth of Rowhook is Honey Lane Farmhouse, the only C16th jettied crosswing to hall house in Rudgwick, dating from c1475, located at the end of the old route to Dorking, Honey LaneMonks, c1670, is in the NE ‘panhandle’ of the parish, almost in Surrey, and on old Stane Street
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