Ryeford House

Ryeford House is a late 18th-century house with an attached former warehouse, now known as No 2 Ryeford House. The warehouse was built in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of Flemish bond red brick, with English bond to the warehouse; it has brick chimneys and a concrete plain tile roof, with Welsh slate to No 2. It is three storeys with an attic, while the warehouse is single-storey with an attic and cellar.

The south front has a 2-window configuration. It features 12-pane sash windows on the ground and middle floors, and a 6-pane window in the attic, all with plain ashlar architraves. A centrally positioned doorway has a plain architrave and a 20th-century door. A raised rendered panel in the attic bears remnants of lettering reading ‘W. B. SMITH / CABINET MAKER’. Gable end chimneys are present. At the rear, a tall fixed-light window with a timber lintel is centrally positioned, alongside two 12-pane sashes with timber lintels.

The warehouse projects forward from the left side of the south front, with bargeboards to its gable end. It has plank double cellar doors with small-paned casements flanking them, a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, and an attic window, all with stone lintels. An entrance doorway with a 20th-century door is on the east side of the warehouse, flanked by 12-pane sashes. The building forms part of a group with Ryeford Bridge and Tankard House. The house contains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.