Ridgwardine Manor

Ridgwardine Manor is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with extensions from the 17th century and remodelled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a rendered timber frame, which has largely been refaced or rebuilt in red brick, and has a plain tile roof. It is designed in an H-plan with a baffle entry, comprising one framed bay with gabled crosswings—one bay to the left and a projecting two bays to the right. There is a later one bay addition to the left. The manor stands two storeys high with an attic and has a basement to the right.

The right side features a plinth, plat bands on the right and left wings, and a parapeted gable end to the left with stone coping and shaped stone kneelers. The barge boards are plain with finials. A large dressed grey sandstone ridge stack has stone coping and has been rebuilt or heightened in red brick, while there is an external lateral brick stack to the right. The windows are 4:1, consisting of one-, two-, and three-light 19th-century wooden casements with painted stone cills and lintels. The door, located between the second and third windows from the left, has six raised and fielded panels, a moulded surround, and a bracketed gabled porch.

At the rear, the rendered timber frame is still visible, underbuilt in brick. The left cross wing features brackets supporting a jettied gable, and there is a small-paned 18th-century first-floor window to the left of the stack. Inside, the manor has square-panelled framed cross walls. The ground-floor room to the left of the stack has a pair of chamfered ceiling beams, a large open fireplace with tooled dressed grey sandstone reveals, and a chamfered wooden lintel with a shallow arch, along with a small salt cupboard. The ground-floor room to the right of the stack also has a pair of chamfered ceiling beams and an 18th-century moulded cornice. The left-hand ground-floor room features a pair of chamfered ceiling beams with ogee stops and a blocked fireplace with an ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. There are a pair of winder stairs to the rear, with the right one being older. The first-floor room to the left of the stack has a pair of ovolo-moulded beams, and there is an old boarded cellar door with wrought-iron fleur-de-lys strap hinges.