Ingleby Toft

Ingleby Toft is an early 18th-century house constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building has a large central stack and is characterized by a chamfered stone plinth, a dentil cornice, and a coped parapet with ball finials. It stands two storeys plus attics and has a symmetrical three-bay east elevation, with the central bay being advanced and pedimented.

Access to the ground floor is via a flight of five stone steps leading to a Tuscan Doric ashlar doorcase that has rustication and a segmental pediment. The entrance features a half-glazed door with a traceried fanlight, flanked by Venetian windows with ashlar surrounds and glazing bar sashes. Above, there are three glazing bar sashes set within double keyed moulded architraves. The central bay extends to an attic storey, which includes a small glazing bar sash in a moulded architrave. The parapet walls on either side ramp to the centre, and there are two roof dormers.

The north elevation has four bays with glazing bar sashes beneath wedge brick lintels, although the second from the right is a false window. At the back, there is a lower service range that may be older than the main house.

Inside, the property features an open string staircase with three knopped turned balusters per tread and a heavy ramped handrail. The entrance hall is stone flagged and includes a Tuscan Doric Venetian archway. The drawing room is adorned with bolection panelling and has a segmental arch leading to the fireplace bay. The dining room features a dentil cornice and a 19th-century marble chimneypiece with fluted columns sourced from elsewhere. The doorways have eared architraves, and the Venetian window displays geometrical relief patterns on the pilasters. The upper rooms contain two plain chimneypieces with eared surrounds, along with a chimneypiece that has a geometric frieze and dentil cornice. It is said that the house was built by the Burdetts of Foremark as a dower house.