Rishworth Lodge

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RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) Rishworth (off) PIKE END ROAD Rishworth Lodge

II Former shooting lodge for Lord Savile now forms restaurant and house, probably third quarter of C19. Punched stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Two storeys and attic gables. In fully developed Domestic Gothic style.

South front of three bays. First two each have coped gables with elaborate kneelers. First bay has doorway with shouldered lintel protected by shallow stone-roofed porch with trefoil on corbelled jambs. The return walls are carved with Savile monogram and coat of arms (the owl). Original door has elaborate wrought iron hinges. First floor has two cross-windows separated by a colonnette. Gable oversails and forms hoodmould to this window. Three arched lights to gable. Second bay has two-storey canted bay window with cross-windows. Quatrefoil to apex. Third bay has large pair of cross-windows with elaborate hoodmould over. Left hand return wall has cross-windows to ground floor and first floor. Attached to rear is stair-outshut with pointed arched windows with trefoil heads progressively stepped. Many elaborate chimney stacks. Corbel table under eaves.

Interior: entrance hall has fire-place of medieval style with canopy and corbels resting on engaged colonnettes with water leaf capitals. Elaborate moulded beams carried on carved corbels. Stairhall has window with coloured glass and dog-leg stair. To rear is original kitchen which retains louvered roof.

Listing NGR: SE0255716542