Ribby Hall

RIBBY WITH WREA RIBBY ROAD SD 43 NW 9/59 Ribby Hall 9.6.67

• II

Mansion house, 1790's for Joseph Hornby; now coverted to private suites. Scored stucco, hipped slate roofs now with no chimneys. Extended U-plan: 7-bay north front to garden with shorter 7-bay receding west wing which is entrance front, 3-bay receding east wing, various continuations of the wings to the rear. Two storeys, with tall 12-pane sashed windows on both floors, low cornice and parapet; entrance front has tretrastyle Tuscan porch to 3rd bay, large full-height semicircular 3-window bay at right end (long single-storey flat-roofed range with 2 bay windows and 3 sashes continues to right); garden front has semicircular 3-window bay in the centre, a similar bay to the returned left end; east wing has 2 larger and 2 smaller windows at ground floor, but is otherwise similar, and altered continuation to rear. Rear has large Venetian stairlight window. Interior: screen of 2 Doric columns between axial passage and imperial staircase which mounts in one and returns in 2 flights. (Edward Twycross: The Mansions of England and Wales: The County Palatine of Lancaster Vol. II p.43).

Listing NGR: SD4109431900