Rickeston Hall

Rickeston Hall is a house, with an added front range which has been altered. The main part of the house dates to the 18th century. The front facade is rendered and has a slate roof with projecting eaves. Modern uPVC windows are set into the two-storey, three-window front, with the ground-floor windows being wider, replacing earlier tripartite sash windows. A central doorway is blank. The right end wall is roughcast and windowless, and a rear wing extends from this side, featuring a rendered ridge stack and a two-storey, two-window range with 12-pane sashes. A six-panel door, with an arched fanlight above, is located in the left bay, sheltered by a 19th-century glazed porch. A whitewashed roughcast rear wing, with a grouted slate roof and a rendered ridge stack (in a similar position to the chimney on the other wing), likely represents earlier end walls. It has a two-storey, three-window range; 12-pane sashes remain in the left bay and on the first floor of the right bay, while uPVC windows are present in the centre bay and on the ground floor right. A further six-panel door is set to the left. Slate sills are present.

To the rear of the main house, a courtyard is enclosed by an original house and a range of L-plan outbuildings. The original house has a grouted slate roof, hipped to the right, and a short rendered stack. It has a three-window range, with three blocked square windows in the upper section, a 12-pane hornless sash to the left on the ground floor, a doorway in the centre, and a low pantry window to the right – all framed by stone voussoirs. The right end wall has a similar low pantry window.

The outbuilding range to the left presents a formal facade of three bays and features a row of dove holes under the eaves, beneath a grouted slate roof and a stone chimney to the right of the centre bay. It is characterised by three square-headed recesses, where the central one is wider and offset to the left. There are three openings: a wide, elliptical arched coach-entry with stone voussoirs and double broad doors in the centre, a doorway with a timber lintel to the left, and a square-headed doorway with stone voussoirs above a lower, cambered-headed door to the right.

The range at right angles has a higher grouted slate roof, hipped down at the right and gabled at the left. A central stable door is present, flanked by stone voussoirs and vent loops. A whitewashed stone platform in front of the door has steps leading up to the left and extends along the facade to the right, with further steps up to a plank door under the eaves on the right. A board door is located on the ground floor, to the right of the steps, at an angle to the main range. A roofless lean-to is situated on the left end of this range.

The rear of the outbuildings features a blocked carriage arch with stone voussoirs set within a large square-headed recess, with a hipped roof angled to the right.

The interior of the original part of the house largely consists of storage space, with pegged pine roof trusses. The newer part of the house contains a mid-19th century staircase with stick balusters, scrolled tread ends, and a ramped handrail. The upper landing has two arched doors with fanlights, supported by thin, panelled piers and featuring double doors.