The Ridding
The Ridding
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157454
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Ridding
- Statutory Address:
- The Ridding
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157454
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Ridding
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Ridding
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Ridding
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bentham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 63494 70146
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 November 2024 to correct a typo in the Description and reformat the and text to current standards
SD 67 SW
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BENTHAM
The Ridding
II
Large house. 1857 with late C19 alterations. E.G.Paley for B.H.Bent. Squared rubble, sandstone ashlar dressings, slate roof. Scottish baronial style.
Entrance front: two storeys three bays incorporating squat two-stage tower to left. Entrance in base of tower was formerly in central bay, and moved in late C19; moulded surround two centre head and hoodmould with carved head stops; two leaf doors of six panels each and long iron hinges. Immediately below tower parapet is two-light window with flat-faced mullion and shouldered heads. Shaped corbels support parapet which has rope moulding, arrow-slits and clasping turrets with conical roofs. Steeply pitched hipped roof with decorative metal balustrade. Central bay has a similar two-light window on each floor, that on upper floor having corbelled surround and crowstepped gable. Right-hand bay has two-light transomed and mullioned window with round heads. Roll moulding to top of battered plinth, and similar moulding at first floor cill level which rises over a plaque in the tower, now missing. On the stables to the north is a datestone inscribed B.H.B. 1856.
The Ridding is prominently sited on a spur overlooking the Wenning Valley. Designs for west and south elevations in possession of the owners are signed and dated by Paley.
Listing NGR: SD6349470146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324056
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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