Little Ryle Farmhouse

ALNHAM LITTLE RYLE NU 01 SW 9/7 Little Ryle Farmhouse 21/10/53 II

Bastle house. Late C16 - early C17 with C19 additions. Original part random rubble,the rest dressed stone. Welsh slate roofs. 2-storey bastlehouse with lower addition on west and single lean-to additions on east and north.

Bastle: Probably original ground-floor doorway in middle of long north wall, i.e. within later lean-to. Blocked original 1st-floor doorway above has segmental- arched head. Also two blocked 2-light mullioned windows and one sash window in a similar frame. To right of upper door is a patch of disturbed walling of concave shape, perhaps evidence of a removed projecting staircase turret.

South side, partly rebuilt in C19 has 6-flush-panelled door and C19 sash windows.

On east gable two blocked 2-light mullioned windows on 1st floor.

C19 addition has 12-pane sashes.

Interior: Walls 5 ft. thick. Barrel-vaulted ground floor, the vault broken in centre for insertion of C19 staircase.

One ground-floor room has early C18 panelling and fireplace, moulded dado rail and internal shutters.

On 1st floor, a stone C17 fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel and moulded surround.

Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, McDowell, Mercer. HMSO 1970.

Listing NGR: NU0198411098