Norrises

House on Ridgeland's Lane, Newick. This is a complex structure combining a 17th-century remodelling of an earlier house with subsequent additions and alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries, and further work in the 1930s.

The building is constructed of timber frame with plastered infill, brick in Flemish bond (some with glazed headers), 20th-century brick in stretcher bond, and tile hanging, with plain tile roofs and brick stacks.

The plan is intricate, organised around the oldest section centred on a chimney stack, with an addition to the north, an 18th-century addition to the south-west, and a 1930s addition to the south-east extending along the east side. The house rises to two storeys with a cellar and loft space.

The north elevation shows two bays, the left being the return of the 1930s range, while the right bay has been refronted under a half-hipped roof with a Tudor-style board door and a two-light window to the left on each floor, tile-hung gable, and a ridge stack with clustered flues. The rear elevation includes an 18th-century section on the left with an external stack featuring an offset and a tile-hung gable with a two-light window to the right of the stack. The right return comprises a left section set back, a central tile-hung section with a projecting centre that appears to have been heightened when an 18th-century two-bay section was added, and a four-bay gabled 1930s range on the left return with a door, projecting third bay, and hipped roofs to other bays, plus a single-storey bay with a door and 16-pane side-sliding sash.

Windows are predominantly 1930s wooden casements, some with glazing bars, except in the 18th-century addition which retains sashes with glazing bars, exposed sash boxes and bright red gauged brick arches, and on the west side of the central section where small-pane casements survive on the ground floor. A plinth and 1930s doors are evident throughout.

The interior contains significant historic fabric. The timber framing exhibits square panels with jowelled posts, one in the kitchen supporting a moulded bracket under a spine beam. Beams are chamfered, some with bar and cyma stops. Old joists and floorboards survive on the first floor and in the loft. A former inglenook fireplace in the kitchen has a raised bressumer; the dining room contains a fireplace with imported 17th-century carved panels beside it. Old chimney cupboards are positioned on each floor, and some original board doors remain.

The roof over the older section displays chamfered timbers, staggered-butt purlins, and re-used smoke-blackened rafters. The 18th-century part on the ground floor features raised and fielded panelling and doors; this room was extended in the 1930s, with some panelling of that period and some reset, and the fireplace was relocated. Panelled window shutters survive on each floor, and the first-floor fireplace includes an overpanel and cupboard on the right. The cellar is lined in sandstone below the oldest section and brick below the 18th-century part.

The house is reputed to be associated with the local iron industry, with the nearby Newick Park (listed separately) originally having served as an iron-master's house.