Ryton Grange

SJ 40 SE CONDOVER C.P. GREAT RYTON

9/106 Ryton Grange -

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber frame and brick largely concealed by pebbledash, plain tile roof. Original house of 4 or 5 framed bays with later crow-step gabled projection to left of centre; eaves raised to front. 2 storeys, dentilled eaves cornice; framing: exposed to left gable end and back wall, square panels, 3 from cill to wall- plate with long straight tension braces and V-struts from collar to gable; mainly replaced by brick to front. Fenestration all late C19 and C20, 3 cast-iron casements directly below eaves to right of gabled projection with 3 segmental-headed casements to ground floor; one C20 casement directly below eaves to left of gabled projection with similar window beneath; one C20 casement with segmental head on each floor to gabled projection; door- way between first and second windows to right of gabled projection with red brick ridge stack directly above; subsidiary half-glazed door to far right and external stack to left in angle between main range and gabled projection. Interior: not inspected, but said to have an infilled inglenook fireplace, chamfered ceiling beams and C17 oak panelling. V.C.H., VIII (1968), p.35.

Listing NGR: SJ4889103549