The Homestead

NIDD RIPLEY ROAD SE 25 NE (north side)

4/47 The Homestead (formerly listed as Nidd Estate Office at Nidd 15.3.66 Station)

• II

Railway Hotel; now private house. Mid C19. Edge-tooled gritstone and ashlar, purple slate roof. 2 storeys with basement on east side, 3 x 3 bays. South front (to road): central 6-panel door with flanking narrow lights and fanlight in a recessed porch with Tuscan columns and rusticated pilasters supporting entablature and cornice. Lunette window in projecting centre panel above. A 16-pane sash to left of entrance and to left again a 6-panel door in surround with tie-stone jambs. First floor: sashes with glazing bars to left and right, that to right set higher . All windows have projecting sills and large lintels. Projecting eaves band, cast-iron guttering, hipped roof with 4 evenly spaced banded stacks. Right return: the basement storey of rock-faced rusticated ashlar has three 6-pane sashes; the raised ground and first floor has a Giant Tuscan order of 4 attached columns supporting an entablature, cornice and blocking course. There are three full-height 4-pane sashes with divided overlights to the raised ground floor and 3 sashes with glazing bars to the first floor. The east front faced the railway line and was part of the Nidd station facade. The line was closed to passenger traffic in 1954.

Listing NGR: SE2995559981