The Ridding

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SD 67 SW 1/3

BENTHAM The Ridding

II

Large house. 1857 with late C19 alterations. E.G.Paley for B.H.Bent. Squared rubble, sandstone ashlar dressings, slate roof. Scottish baronial style.

Entrance front: two storeys three bays incorporating squat two-stage tower to left. Entrance in base of tower was formerly in central bay, and moved in late C19; moulded surround two centre head and hoodmould with carved head stops; two leaf doors of six panels each and long iron hinges. Immediately below tower parapet is two-light window with flat-faced mullion and shouldered heads. Shaped corbels support parapet which has rope moulding, arrow-slits and clasping turrets with conical roofs. Steeply pitched hipped roof with decorative metal balustrade. Central bay has a similar two-light window on each floor, that on upper floor having corbelled surround and crowstepped gable. Right-hand bay has two-light transomed and mullioned window with round heads. Roll moulding to top of battered plinth, and similar moulding at first floor cill level which rises over a plaque in the tower, now missing. On the stables to the north is a datestone inscribed B.H.B. 1856.

The Ridding is prominently sited on a spur overlooking the Wenning Valley. Designs for west and south elevations in possession of the owners are signed and dated by Paley.

Listing NGR: SD6349470146