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SD5328NE RIBBLESDALE PLACE 941-1/13/238 (North side) 27/09/79 Nos.35 AND 36

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices. c.1846, with later additions. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Canted back from Ribblesdale Place at curved junction with Avenham Lane, and with Regent Street added at the right-hand side; double-depth plan, built as single-fronted halls-adjoining pair, with coupled back extensions. Two storeys over cellars, 2 bays, symmetrical, with ashlar plinth, moulded 1st floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice; coupled doorways in the centre, up 2 steps with nosings, with doorcase composed of 3 engaged Ionic columns with plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course, each doorway with imposts, moulded lintel, elliptical fanlight and panelled door. Each has an added 2-storey canted bay with unhorned 4-pane sashed glazing on both floors, and between these at 1st floor is a stone plaque with concave corners inscribed "RIBBLESDALE PLACE" with "35 / 36" below. Roof hipped at right-hand end, left gable coped, with cut-down chimney. Attached to front corners and to centre of steps are railing plinths with replacement railings enclosing paved front areas. The right-hand return wall of No.36 (to Regent Street) has a lower 2-storey 1-bay extension to the rear, the band ramped down to this, one 12-pane sash on each floor of each part, and the band further ramped down to the coping of the back-yard wall, which has a doorway servicing the yards of both. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5398528907

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