Bishopton Lodge

SE 3071 RIPON BISHOPTON 2/21 (north side) 27.5.49 No 7 GV (Bishopton Lodge)

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Mid-C18. Brown brick. Pyramidal stone slate roof with weather-vane. Two storeys. Wood modillioned eaves cornice. Three bays: sashes with glazing bars and chanelled stucco voussoirs. Rusticated quoins. One canted ground floor low window with modillioned wooden cornice door with 6 fielded panels, oblong fanlight with glazing bars, moulded surround and moulded cornice. One-storey extensions to east and west: 2 bays each. First bay has blocked round-arched carriage entrance with chanelled stucco voussoirs. Second bay has sash with glazing bars and chanelled stucco voussoirs, and semi-circular attic window with chanelled stucco voissoirs.

Interior. Fine staircase hall with ornamental plaster ceiling: figure of putto with laurel sprig chain, plus clouds, surrounded by Rococo ornament at 4 corners. Staircase has closed string, turned balusters and spiral curtail. Stone flagged floor with black marble quarries. Late C18 chimneypiece and late C19 wainscotting ground floor south-east room, south-west ground floor room has contemporary chimneypiece, and plaster ceiling with egg-and-dart cornices to beams, and Rococo ornament at intersection.

History. Built by William Aislabie of Studley Royal as a steward's house.

Listing NGR: SE3003571117