Old Ridley Hall

Old Ridley Hall is a house with a core dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, with rear wings added in the late 18th century, a central south-east wing in the early 19th century, and a south-west block in the early 20th century. The original fabric is of rubble, while the remainder is largely of squared and tooled stone. The roof is of large blue slates. The west front, which serves as the main entrance, has two distinct parts. The left section is two storeys high with three bays, featuring two 20th-century casements on the ground floor and three 12-pane sash windows above. The right side reveals the outline of a rubble gable end belonging to an earlier single-storey building. The left end has a coped gable and a stepped stack with conjoined shafts. The right section is also two storeys high with three bays; it has a chamfered plinth and a wood modillion eaves cornice. The slightly projecting left bay has a 6-panel door with a patterned fanlight, flanked by fixed 8-pane windows, all under a cornice. Above are tall 12-pane sashes, and the central bay has a 12-pane sash; the right bay is plain. One section has a hipped roof with stepped and corniced stack and conjoined shafts between the right bays. The south elevation is divided into three parts: the left bay, set forward, is the end of the south-west block, featuring a full-height canted bay. The broad central bay contains a 12-pane sash flanked by 8-pane sashes, with two 12-pane sashes above; it has a coped gable with a finial and moulded kneelers. The right bay, set back, has 12-pane sashes and a roof hipped to the right. The rear elevation incorporates twin wings with coped gables, moulded kneelers, and stacks corbelled out. A recessed central area shows two early 18th-century ridge stacks, stepped and corniced with quadripartite shafts; at the time of survey, the stack to the left lacked its cornice. The interior has been considerably altered.