Raventhorpe Manor

Raventhorpe Manor is a house built in the early to mid-19th century, with later additions from the mid-19th century and 1905. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a blue slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features three bays, including a two-bay block with a rear wing added to the right later in the 19th century, and another block added to the rear left corner in 1905, which is not of special interest.

The garden front has a plinth, a first-floor cill band, an eaves band, and oversailing eaves. The windows are 16-pane sashes, mostly retaining their original glazing, with the ground floor windows being taller and featuring apron panels and eaved architraves. The central bay of the main range projects forward and is rusticated on the ground floor, featuring a pedimented entrance with three steps leading up to a six-panel double door. This entrance is topped with a dentil cornice that continues, undentilled, to either side over flanking sidelights set in recessed panels.

The left bay of the right-hand addition also projects forward, maintaining the architectural rhythm, and has a tripartite window on each floor. Each window features a 16-pane sash flanked by 8-pane sashes, with corniced and pedimented architraves. The ground-floor architrave includes a frieze and triangular pediment, while the first-floor architrave has corbels below, jamb blocks, and a segmental pediment. The roof is hipped over the main range, and the ridge stacks have been rebuilt in white brick with stone cornices.

On the left return, there are steps leading up to a French window on the right, a sash window with glazing bars on the left, and two similar windows above flanking a recess. Inside, the entrance hall features a chequered floor, panelled doors, and round-arched niches with trellis-patterned doors. The dog-leg open-string staircase has wave-moulded treads, twist-balusters, and panelled, square-sectioned newels with added caps.