List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: RIBSTON HALL
List Entry Number: 1149963
Location
RIBSTON HALL
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North Yorkshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Great Ribston with Walshford
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 08-Mar-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 330603
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Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE
HARROGATE
5338
SE 35 SE GREAT RIBSTON RIBSTON PARK
WITH WALSHFORD
8.3.52
5/29 Ribston Hall
GV II*
Large country house. 1674 and early C18. Built for the Goodricke family.
Red brick, Flemish bond, ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate roof.
2 storeys, 15 bays. C17 south front: rusticated quoins. Central panelled
double doors have flanking Corinthian columns and open segmental scrolled
pediment. Flanking 4-pane sash windows in architraves with floating
cornices. 1st floor has 15-pane sash windows with architraves. Decorated
panel below central window. Pairs of short ashlar pilasters below windows.
Oversailing eaves with modillion cornice. Hipped roof, probably M-shaped.
2 stacks on ridge above bays 5 and 11. Further stacks on parallel ridge to
rear, and on ridges of side wings. C18 rear elevation has central doorway
with Tuscan columns supporting triangular pediment. All windows are 15-pane
sashes in recessed frames. The 2 outer bays break forward as side wings.
Left return: newly-pointed wall with round-headed staircase window. Right
return has chapel (q.v.) attached. A lower, 7-bay range of C18 and C19
date, attached to the left (west) end of the house, was demolished c1980.
Interior: the central 5 bays of the south side of the house contain the
saloon, with mid C18 plasterwork, a ceiling renewed c1790-1800 and
redecorated 1846 by C. Moxon of London, to whom the existing colours are
due. The plasterwork contains many classical motifs including laurel
wreaths, urns, trophies and eagles. Wall panels contain copies of Italian
paintings. Elaborate end fireplaces, main door in round-headed arch;
doorway to north entrance hall has flanking Corinthian columns and
triangular pediment. Other rooms on south side of house include: (west end)
small room with panelling and C17 carved wood overmantle with fruit and
flowers. At the east end: a library with access to chapel (q.v.). On the
north side of the house - a fine Adam-style dining room with columns and
fine plasterwork and carved wood. In process of redecoration.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1959), pp 400 and 644.
H. Speight, Nidderdale, (1894). p 167.
Country Life, October 11th 1973, pp 1050-3, and '
October 18th 1973, pp 1142-5.
Listing NGR: SE3918553774
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - The West Riding, (1959), 400 & 644
Speight, H, Nidderdale, (1894), 167
'Country Life' in 11 October, (1973)
'Country Life' in 18 October, (1973), 1142-5
OtherRegister of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
Map
National Grid Reference: SE 39185 53774
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