Description

PRESTON

SD5328NE RIBBLESDALE PLACE
941-1/13/232 (West side)
No.17

GV II

House, now office. Mid C19, altered and with C20 additions.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan (built on narrow plot
between earlier buildings). Three storeys over basement, 3
bays, with ashlar basement, plain frieze and moulded cornice.
The entrance in the 1st bay has a porch with 4 Tuscan columns
mounted on panelled pedestals, with plain frieze and moulded
cornice, 3 steps under the porch leading to a round-headed
doorway which has imposts and a fanlight with moulded
surround; and continued to the right of the porch is a
panelled ashlar wall protecting a deep basement well (the
basement having a doorway and a 20-pane sashed window). All
the windows have moulded architraves with corbels at the ends
of the sills, and altered glazing.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with unusual screen on inner side of
doorway (Tuscan columns distyle in antis), elaborate moulded
plaster cornices here and in front room; large open-well
staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread and panelled
newels, illuminated by large skylight with painted panel in
centre; 1st floor front room with very elaborate undercut
plaster frieze and cornice, and ceiling rose with curled
acanthus leaves.

Listing NGR: SD5378428978

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