Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW RIBBLESDALE PLACE
941-1/14/228 (South side)
Nos.1 AND 2
and attached railings

GV II

Pair of town houses, now office and house. c.1830, altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and
graduated slate roof. Double-depth plan. Two storeys with
basements and attics, 3+3 bays; ashlar basement treated as a
plinth, 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice.
No.1 has the doorway to the left, up 2 steps, with a doorcase
of engaged Tuscan columns with plain frieze and moulded
cornice, plain jambs with imposts, and a glazed and panelled
door with elliptical fanlight, and to the left of this a lobby
doorway with plain surround, board door and overlight; No.2
has a very wide elliptical-arched doorway to the right (up 3
steps), with gauged brick head, and a set-in tripartite
doorcase with shafted jambs and moulded lintel, panelled door
and narrow side windows, all under a fanlight with radiating
leaded glazing. Each has two 4-pane sashes at ground floor and
3 above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement
areas protected by cast-iron railings with curvilinear
balusters, No.2 with a gate in the returned end opening onto
steps. Chimneys in front and behind the ridge at the junction
and at the right-hand gable; small inserted dormer at No.2.
Rear: 3-storeyed, with basements at ground level; No.1 has
2-storey canted bay window, 2 inserted glazed doors at
basement level, sashed windows above; No.2 has French windows
at basement levels, altered windows at 1st floor (uPVC).
INTERIORS: No.2 has cross-vaulted entrance hall, panelled
architraves to doors, fine plaster cornices in drawing room
and parlour, and built-in cupboards in dining room with
Gothick traceried doors; both have full basement suites, both
modernised but No.1 with former kitchen retaining iron cooking
range and washing boiler, and No.2 with dumb-waiter and
butler's pantry.

Listing NGR: SD5401228871

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568998

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5