6-10, MAIN STREET

A terrace of four cottages and a house, dating from the early to mid-19th century, located in Ripley, and originally part of the estate village for Sir William Amcotts Ingilby. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a grey slate roof. It comprises two storeys and six bays. The design is in the Gothic style. A plinth runs along the base. Number 10, on the right-hand side, is a double-fronted house with a central front door featuring applied Y-tracery, set below a plain lintel with a hoodmould. The flanking windows on the ground and first floor each have three lights with intersecting tracery within rectangular frames, stone sills, and hoodmoulds. The cottages have identical front doors and windows, each being a single bay with a door to the left. The roof is hipped with deep eaves and features five corniced and crenellated ridge stacks spaced at intervals. Sir William Ingilby replicated architectural details from the restoration of the nearby Castle, which was undertaken for his father (died 1815), when rebuilding the village. The window frames are similar to those on the coach-house of the Castle courtyard, and the chimneys resemble those of the Tower and Castle ranges. Numbers 1 to 5 are a reflected row that mirror this terrace. Number 10 was originally the Post Office.