Description

PRESTON

SD5328NE RIBBLESDALE PLACE
941-1/13/230 (South side)
27/09/79 Nos.8, 9A, 9B, 9C
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
RIBBLESDALE PLACE
(South side)
No.8)
(Formerly Listed as:
RIBBLESDALE PLACE
(South side)
Nos.9, 9A, 9B, 9C)

GV II

Pair of houses, now office and office with flats over. 1820s,
altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Double depth plan, No.8 single-fronted and
No.9 double-fronted. Two storeys with basements and attics,
2+3 bays, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st floor
sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking
course. The doorways, in the 2nd and 4th bays, both up 3
steps, have doorcases with engaged Tuscan columns, square
abaci, plain friezes and moulded cornices, plain jambs with
imposts, and recessed panelled doors with elliptical
fanlights. No.8 has two 12-pane sashes at 1st floor, otherwise
all the windows are sashed without glazing bars, and all have
raised sills and wedge lintels. Two gabled dormers at No.9;
chimneys on the ridge and at the gables. Continued to left of
No.8 is a small single-storey service wing with one window and
a door; and attached to the right of No.9 is a C20 addition
(entrance to Nos.9A and 9B). Three basement areas (left,
centre, and right), all with complete sets of railings which
have alternating curvilinear and stick balusters, with gates
to the service door of No.8 and at the right-hand end at No.9.
Rear: both have 2-storey canted bays, and No.9 also has a
large 2-storey bow with observatory deck.
INTERIOR: 1st floor of No.9 (flat No.9A) has fine drawing room
with moulded plaster panels, plaster cornices etc.

Listing NGR: SD5390628893

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568999

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)