Ridge House

Ridge House is a house dating from the mid to later 17th century, with alterations and a refronting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The front of the house is rendered, while the rest of the structure is rubble stone, and the roof is tiled. It is two and a half storeys high, with three bays at the front. The front range has coped gables, ridge stacks, and end stacks. A parapet rises at the ends and features an early 19th-century dentil cornice, along with raised strips mimicking a truncated pediment. The front has a four-window arrangement; the first, third, and fourth bays are similar, although slightly irregular. There are attic timber, two-light Gothic windows (hiding earlier mullions), first-floor 12-pane sash windows with margin lights in Tudor-arched surrounds with hoodmoulds, and ground-floor French windows, all seemingly dating from 1800-1830. The third bay features an arched doorway with a fanlight in a later 18th-century Roman Doric surround. The second bay has two storeys, each featuring a large, later 18th-century Venetian window in an architrave. To either side of the front are tall, early 19th-century pointed arches with dentilled coping. The end walls have 17th-century ovolo-moulded mullion windows, two-light with a hoodmould on each floor. The rear, on the south-east, includes a late 18th-century lean-to addition, likely for a staircase, with a south-facing Venetian window. A north-east rear wing dates back to the 17th century and has two-light windows on the north side, a coped east gable, and a three-light east window, recessed and chamfered on the first floor, with ovolo-moulding above. A ground-floor lean-to has a doorway within a moulded architrave. To the left is a projecting wing from 1904, designed by H. Brakspear, distinguished by mullion windows and a square bay window. To the right, an attached range, seemingly from the 17th century, features ovolo-moulded mullion windows: a three-light window to the east end of the first floor, two two-light windows on the south side of the first floor, a three-light window below, and two two-light windows on each floor of the west end. It includes a door and hood on brackets. The west end and north side have stacks. A single-storey, stone-tiled range runs along the north side, possessing a 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded window to the right and an early 19th-century Gothic window to the left. The east side features a three-light early 19th-century Gothic window and an opening to a cellar. The interior includes a later 18th-century modillion cornice in the room to the left of the front door and a chamfered beam with an early 19th-century ceiling moulding in the room to the right.