Ridgemount

Ridgemount is a house built in 1922-1923 by the architects Joseph Berry & Sons for Ralph Murgatroyd. Joseph Berry admired Edgar Wood, who designed the nearby Briarcourt, which is also listed. The house features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a pitched stone slate roof. It is two storeys high with some gables that are coped and connected by a low parapet. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with chamfered edges. At the east end, there is a broad canted bay that is parapeted. The porch has a crenellated parapet and a door adorned with cornices, leaded lights, and ornamental Arts and Crafts cast iron hinges. The property includes various Arts and Crafts rainwater heads and junction boxes with embossed ornament.

Inside, the hall features Jacobethan wainscotting and a moulded plaster ceiling decorated with arabesque ornament. The main room on the southeast side has more elaborate wainscotting, with ornamented panelled pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and numerous panels carved with arabesque designs. The chimneypiece is flanked by Tuscan colonnettes, and the overmantel features applied Ionic balusters. Additionally, there are particularly elaborate brass fingerplates and spirally fluted door handles.