Rampisham Rectory

aka Pugin Hall

I have not visited this house, however one can not help being enchanted with these photographs. Pugin was commissioned too few times to design private houses for the middle class Victorian, maybe that it why his domestic architecture is so revered. There are really only four examples of his work in this category of which Rampisham Rectory 1845-1847 surely is the most attractive. The others are the Grange 1843-1844, Oswaldcroft 1844-1847 and a house built for W.G. Ward at St. Edmund's College 1846

Rampisham Rectory which is listed grade ll* was built for F.J. Rooke who became rector of Rampisham in 1845, Pugin also did some work on Rampisham church. This house still retains many of its original features. It was described by Pevsner as 'a fine house'.