Ingleberg

House, built in 1900 to designs of J S Moffat of Whitehaven for Thomas Robley. The stencilled work was executed by Richard Smith of Beckermet.

The house is constructed of rendered red sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It stands on an elevated site set back from the road and surrounded by extensive gardens. The plan is roughly rectangular with a central entrance and stair hall.

The exterior is a three-bay two-storey house with attic and partial basement. It features prominent ashlar quoins and moulded stone bands beneath hipped and pitched roofs with tall end stacks and some ridge tiles with finials. The central entrance is reached by stone steps flanked by low, coped flanking walls. The segmental-arched entrance has a hood mould, label stops and carved foliate ornamentation. The double-leaf five-panel timber doors have stained glass to the upper pair of panels and fanlight. Above is a dentilled cornice carrying a balustraded balcony.

The right bay and the slightly projecting gabled left end bay each have a canted bay window with a cross window to the centre flanked by a margin light to each side, and a solid parapet above a dentilled cornice. Both end bays have paired three-light first floor windows and the centre has a single identical window, all within stone architraves with alternate blocking and solid lintels with ornate chamfered heads. A crest bearing the initials T R E (Thomas and Elizabeth Robley) is set centrally between a pair of stone bands to the apex of the gabled bay. There is a single pedimented roof dormer.

The three-bay left return with a projecting end bay has groups of paired or single two-light windows to each floor in similar architraves to the main elevation, but with curvilinear aprons. A tall decorative chimneystack with a broken pediment to its base and a carved swag with the date 1900 set within a plaque below. The flush three-bay right return is similarly detailed but with fewer windows and without decorative aprons or a pedimented chimney base. The rear elevation has a blind right end bay and plain centre and left bays with cat-slide and hipped roof respectively and multiple chimney stacks. An attached single-storey bay with hipped roof adjoins the latter.

Interior features include four-panel doors, deep moulded cornices and skirting boards throughout, with classical dados and friezes to all principal ground floor spaces and the landing, and stained Art Nouveau glass. The vestibule has a timber and stained glass screen with a single door and a coloured geometric tiled floor. The walls have a classical stencilled dado in the form of a balustrade incorporating urns, flowers and leaves, a stencilled floral and foliate frieze, and opposing moulded door cases with ornate broken pediments. The stencilled dado and frieze continue into the stair hall and up the inner stairwell to the first floor landing. The quarter-turn closed string staircase has a panelled spandrel, turned balusters, a moulded handrail and ornate newel posts and drops.

The drawing room has a deep stencilled Art Nouveau frieze of roses with above the door a stencilled inscription reading "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". There is a picture rail below. The room retains an original ornate timber chimney piece extensively carved with columns, figures and scrolled motifs, with a mirrored overmantle of similar ornate design. It retains an original grate with Art Nouveau tiled margins. Two areas of timber baffled seating have upper glazed Art Nouveau panels.

The dining room retains an original timber chimney piece with a bracketed mantle shelf and jambs richly carved with flowers and fruit. It also has a picture rail and anaglypta dado and rail. The door retains original door furniture including a door knob and ornate metal door plates depicting trees and birds.

The kitchen retains an original red sandstone fireplace, picture rail, fitted cupboards and a timber dado. The breakfast room has an anaglypta dado and frieze and retains a painted slate chimney piece (painted to resemble burr walnut panelling of the doors) with a bracketed mantle shelf and a timber pedimented overmantle. The substantial four-panel door retains ornate metal door plates and an original door knob, and there are original light switches and bell pushes. A service corridor runs between the former scullery and the breakfast room and retains original carpentry including a sound-proofed door, skirting boards and dado rail.

The first floor landing has a coved and ribbed plaster ceiling lit by a large Art Nouveau stained glass roof light. It also has a stencilled dado and frieze matching those to the ground floor. Bedrooms mostly retain moulded cornices, skirting boards and picture rails. The south-east bedroom has an ornate stone chimney piece and ornate timber overmantle and retains a register grate with tiled margins. The north-west bedroom has a marble chimney piece with bracketed mantle shelf and original register grate with tiled margins. There is poker work of foliate and floral design to the panelling of the lavatory.

Subsidiary items include a low stone wall forming the south boundary with double-chamfered coping stones (railings removed). It curves to an inset opening at the left with tall stone gate piers and gates, to a wide opening at the right with three low stone gate piers, all with pyramidal caps.