Ridgebourne

Ridgebourne is a house located on Ridgebourne Road in Kington. It features an early 19th-century front that conceals an 18th-century core. The exterior is roughcast over stone rubble, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has twin gables. A central dressed stone ridge stack and a dressed stone stack on the left rear are notable features. The house has a central staircase plan and is designed in a late Classical style, standing two storeys tall with a five-window range. The central section has 6/6 sash windows set back in a porch bay, with moulded and bracketed eaves and twin pediments above the gables. The entrance includes four-panel double doors with a plain overlight, situated under an ashlar portico supported by square pilasters. On either side of the entrance are paired 2/2 sashes with shutters, and a Venetian window to the left.

The left side of the house features a returned eaves detail and a late 19th-century bay window on the ground floor. The rear wing, which is the original part of the house dating around 1700, has a 19th-century front. It includes twin ashlar stacks and a twin-span roof, with a 6/6 sash window flanked by 8/8 sashes and a lunette window in the pedimented gable. There is also a late 19th-century bay with French windows and an 8/8 sash. To the left and rear is a late 19th-century gable wing featuring 6/6 sashes, a pedimented gable with a semicircular window, and an ashlar stack.

Inside, the house boasts an early 19th-century open-well staircase with stick balusters and a swan-neck rail, along with a Gothick glazed staircase sash. The left side of the ground floor has a marble fireplace with columns, a cornice, and six-panel doors. The similar rooms in the rear wing feature early 18th-century panelling.