Description

RIPLEY MAIN STREET
SE 2860-2960 (west side)

8/69 Vale Lodge
15.3.66

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early-mid C19. Part of the estate village of Sir
William Amcotts Ingilby. Coursed squared gritstone, grey slate roof. 2
storeys, 3 x 2 bays. In Gothick style. Plinth. 2 steps up to central 4
panel door, the upper 2 panels with trefoil heads; interlaced glazing bars
to pointed overlight; pointed-arched door-head with a double chamfer
decorated with flower-heads in relief; the chamfers terminating in shields
with star motifs at impost level. All windows have pointed sashes with
interlaced glazing bars; the arches of 2 pieces with star in relief at
impost level as doorway. Square hoodmoulds to all openings. Moulded eaves
cornice and shallow blocking course; hipped roof with 4 octagonal-flue
corniced end stacks. Sir William's father, Sir John (d1815) was responsible
for the rebuilding of the castle and coach-house ranges. Sir William used
the flower motifs, Ingilby star, 2-piece lintels and window forms from the
gatehouse pedestrian entrance and the windows of the north (coach-house)
range of the Castle courtyard in the designs for several houses in the
village: Castle Close is identical, Birchwood farmhouse and Horngarth only
differ in the chimney positions and Star House was built to the same design.

Listing NGR: SE2845760638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443229

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)