Ramsden House

Ramsden House is a parsonage, later converted into a house, dating from 1862 and designed by William Wilkinson. The building is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. It features an irregular plan with a service wing projecting to the north-west. The architectural style is Gothic Revival.

The house is two storeys and has an attic, with the service wing being of one storey and an attic. A chamfered plinth runs around the base, and the gables are parapeted with shaped kneelers and finials at the apexes. Stone stacks with offsets and chamfered caps are present. Windows are mostly chamfered shallow-arched glazing bar sashes with bar stops and stone arches.

The north-west front (the main entrance front) has a projecting wing with a quatrefoil in the gable apex. It features a single sash window to the attic and first floor, and paired ground-floor sashes with a relieving arch. A narrow first-floor sash is located in the return. A partly-enclosed stone porch is situated in the angle to the left. This porch has chamfered square columns, an entablature with a blocking course, a hipped roof, a pair of doors with two raised and fielded panels each, and diamond-leaded side windows.

The right-hand return front has a gabled range set back to the left, also featuring a quatrefoil in the gable apex. It includes paired first-floor sashes lighting the staircase, with margin lights and a relieving arch, and a half-glazed door. A projecting right-hand gable has a small Gothic attic window and a two-storey square bay with a chamfered string course, hipped roof, a single first-floor sash, and triple ground-floor sashes.

The south-east front (facing the garden) has a left-hand range with a pair of square-headed first-floor sashes and a hipped-roofed square bay on the ground floor. A projecting, gabled wing in the centre has a quatrefoil in the gable apex, a two-storey square bay with chamfered string courses, a coped parapet, first-floor sashes, and sashes flanking a central glazed door. An external stone stack corbels from the first floor. A range of one storey and an attic is set back to the right, with a gabled semi-dormer and a ground-floor bay with a canted right-hand corner, a string course, and a coped parapet. It has square-headed sashes and a four-panelled door with a moulded hood on shaped stone brackets.

The service wing is located to the north-east, with a ridge stack and an end stack. The south-west front has a pair of gabled semi-dormers, ground-floor sashes, and a three-light wooden casement.

The interior, which was not inspected, is noted to feature a three-light staircase with landings, a closed string, turned balusters, and square newel posts.