Ryehill Manor House

THORNGUMBALD MAIN ROAD TA 22 NW (south-west side)

Ryehill 4/25 Ryehill Manor House

• II Farmhouse. c1760 for Tatton Sykes, possibly with earlier origins; C19 alterations and additions. Brick whitewashed, Welsh slate roof. T-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front and 2-room rear wing with outshut and additions to angle. Plinth. Projecting C19 porch with slender columns carrying moulded cornice and flat hood, over half-glazed panelled door and plain overlight in architrave and reveal. 16-pane sashes, and 12- pane sash above entrance, in flush wooden architraves with sills and stucco flat arches. Wooden eaves board, modillioned gutter. Hipped roof. End stacks. Left return: gable end of front range has pair of 12-pane ground- floor sashes, single similar first-floor sash; 3-bay rear wing has entrance to right with doorcase and shallow hood, half-glazed panelled door and overlight in reveal, small 4-pane sash, C19-C20 ground-floor bay window and 16-pane sash to left, similar first-floor sashes. All sashes in similar surrounds to south front. Axial and end stacks. Rear gable end has 20-pane first-floor sash in reset early C18 moulded ashlar architrave. Interior. South front contains mid C18 open well staircase with wreathed corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters and newel, and square cheek-pieces; beamed ceiling, marble pilastered chimney-pieces, panelled window shutters, fielded-panel doors in architraves. Moulded cornices to rear wing. Not fully investigated.

Listing NGR: TA2224626184