Risebridge Farmhouse

House. Late 16th century. It is timber framed with exposed close studding and plaster infill, with tile hung return elevations on a red brick ground floor. The roof is plain tiled. This is an unusually long house of seven framed bays; it has a lobby entry. The house stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a half-hipped roof and stacks to the centre and to the right. There are six 20th-century casements on the first floor, with a moulded mullioned window to the centre left, and six irregularly sized casements on the ground floor. A central plank and stud door of the same age has a flat hood on brackets. The main posts have mortice holes at consistent heights, possibly indicating braced principals for a lean-to bressummer raised to the right where the end bay was originally jettied to the right return. A moulded mullioned window is visible on the right return on the first floor. A catslide roof extends to the rear, interrupted by two half-hipped wings.

The interior features a fully framed structure with timbers of good size and an excellent finish, all chamfered with stops throughout. A queen strut roof has diminished principals and wind braces. The rafters are worked into a slight rounded arch to the inner angle of the apex, and the purlins are stop-chamfered between principals. A stack contains a large inglenook with moulded stone jambs and a large moulded wooden bressummer with enriched spandrels. Large moulded stone and timber upper fireplaces have four-centred arched heads. Several mullioned windows remain, some with ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and shutter grooves. Early doors, oak floorboards, and a reset newel stair survive, along with a portion of a parlour screen, moved from its original position. The screen is screening off the jettied south end, and has a primitive linenfold decoration.