Outbuilding Rear Of Number 5 Main Street

The outbuilding located at the rear of Number 5 Main Street in Ripley is a wash-house that dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is part of the estate village built for Sir William Amcotts Ingilby. The structure is made of coursed squared gritstone and features a grey slate roof. This single-storey, low square building is designed in the Gothick style and has a board door on the left beneath a plain lintel, with a 3-light rectangular window featuring intersecting tracery to the right. It has a projecting eaves band and a hipped roof, along with a short chimney stack at the rear left corner. Inside, there is a stone flagged floor, a brick copper in the rear left corner, and an open roof supported by two king-post roof trusses, all of which are timber pegged. This outbuilding is unique in its type behind the row and may be shared with a similar structure behind Number 6, also helping to close the gap between the two terraces as viewed from the Market Place.