Description

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SD5328NE RIBBLESDALE PLACE 941-1/13/235 (North side) 27/09/79 Nos.24 AND 25 and attached pump

GV II

Pair of town houses. Probably 1832, slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, No.24 double-fronted and No.25 single-fronted, both with back extensions. Two storeys with basements and attics, 3+2 bays, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course. The doorways, in the 2nd and 4th bays, both up 4 steps with nosings, have doorcases of engaged Ionic columns with plain friezes and moulded cornices with blocking courses, plain jambs with imposts, and panelled doors under elliptical fanlights. The windows are sashed without glazing bars, and have raised sills and wedge lintels; the basements have half-sunk windows with gratings over the wells. Large wooden gabled dormer over 3rd bay of No.24; one ridge chimney and gable chimneys. The right-hand return wall of No.25 (to Camden Place) has one window on each floor of the rear bay (including cellar) and an attic window; and, continued to the rear, a lower 2-storey one-bay back extension architecturally integrated with Nos.1 to 4 Camden Place (q.v.), with sashed windows on both floors. INTERIOR: No.24 has a complete service including fireplace, washing boiler, slopstone, and steps up to the back yard where there is a pump dated 1832.

Listing NGR: SD5385128933

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