Rudloe Manor, Box, Wiltshire, SN13 (Grade II*)

ST 87 SW BOX RUDLOE

1/211 Rudloe Manor

GV II*

Manor House, late C17, rubble stone with steep stone tiled hipped roof and central ridge stack of 4 clustered diagonal shafts. Two storeys and attic. Two hipped dormers. Four-window range of recessed 3-light mullion windows with dripcourse over each floor stepped as hoodmould over windows. Relieving arches over ground floor hoods. Centre has oval light to each floor. One-window range to end walls, hipped dormer over 3-light windows with stepped dripcourse. To right of south end, rear wing with later C19 two and a half storey Tudor style porch tower with coped gable, mullion and transom first floor window and Tudor-arched openings on 3 sides of ground floor. Rear 3 gables, largely rebuilt or extended in Cl9 and C20. Running north is wing apparently late medieval with west side wall stack flanked by first floor cusped C15 single light to right and C19 or restored 2-light window to left, north end cusped single light and east side 2-light cusped mullion-and-transom window. Manor recorded from early C13. Interior altered. House probably built c1685 for T. Goddard.