Ridgemont

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Burstwick New Laids Lane TA 22 NW (North Side, off) Ridgemont 4/4

- II

The description shall be amended to read:-

House. 1824-5 for William Shokney and the Constable Estate. Restored and altered 1983-9. Red-brown brick to front, yellow brick to sides and rear in flemish bond. Slate roof. 2 Storeys 5 bay south front symmetrical. Plinth has almost illegible reset datestone 1740. Central doorway has restored Tuscan porch with columns carrying renewed entablature and hood, plain pilasters flank C20 door with fanlight in moulded surround. C20, 24-pane ground floor sashes, in original frames, with heavy central vertical glazing bars, in reveals with ashlar cills and painted lintels with projecting hoods. Similar smaller C20, 20-pane first floor sashes with cills and painted lintels. Plain wooden eaves board, ornate cast iron gutter brackets, many replaced. Hipped roof, double span to rear. Corniced brick stacks with square pots. East front, 4 bay, blind window to left, tripartite glazing bar sash, C20 porch to right with cambered arch; above 3, 16-pane sashes to right, blind window to left. West front two single storey. Flat roofed C20 swimming pool addition with UPVC fenestration, above 3, 16-pane sashes to left, blind window to right. North front has 20 panel door with overlight and 3, 20 casement windows. Interior. Stairhall has fine stone cantilevered staircase with moulded nosing and ramped mahogany handrail, wrought iron balustrade with alternating pairs of column balusters and scrolled interlaced panels with rosette ornament column-on-vase newel moulded plaster covering, tall stairwell to rear with 2 round arched openings to first floor. Drawing room, ground floor right; good cream and orange marble chimney piece with tapering fluted pilasters carrying panelled frieze with roundels to closets and fluted insets to frieze, ornate moulded covering, panel doorcase with pates and hood. Dining room, ground floor left has similar doorcase and original 6-panel door, moulded covering with open-work grapevine motif and ribbed frieze. Secondary wooden staircase with moulded handrail, column newels and stick balusters, some replaced. First floor has 3 original fireplaces, two wooden ones with ribbed pilasters and pulvinated friezes and one original cast-iron grate, the third fireplace is painted stone with ribbed pilasters and patera. Windows to west front have fielded panel shutters and renewed window seats. C19 photograph shows consoles to front windows. N Pevsner. The Buildings of England. Yorkshire East Riding, 1978, p 206; H Alison Kay, William Shokney 1764-1848 (privately published) 1980 pp 48-9, 60-86; C Howard. A General View of the Agriculture of the East Riding 1833, pp 130-151.

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BURSTWICK NEW LAIDS LANE TA 22 NW (north side, off)

4/4 Ridgemont

- II House. 1824-5 for William Stickney and the Constable Estate. Renovations of c1983. Red-brown brick to front, yellow brick to plinth, sides and rear in Flemish bond. Slate roof. Approximately square on plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front, 3 rooms deep. 2 storeys, 5 bays; symmetrical. Plinth with 1740 datestone reset at left angle. Entrance has projecting Tuscan porch with columns carrying plain entablature and flat hood, pilasters flanking 2-fold, 6-fielded-panel door beneath moulded cornice and radial overlight in fielded-panel reveal with architrave. 24- pane ground-floor sashes with heavy central vertical glazing bars, in reveals with ashlar sills and stucco arches with projecting hoods. Similar smaller unequal 20-pane first-floor sashes with sills and cambered stucco arches. Plain wooden eaves board, ornate cast-iron brackets carrying gutter. Hipped roof, double-span to rear. Corniced yellow brick stacks with square pots. Right return: blind window to ground floor left, tripartite sash with glazing bars, C20 porch to right over door with cambered arch; three first-floor 16-pane sashes to right, similar blind window to left; all windows with sills and cambered brick arches. Left return: blind window, 16-pane sash and two C20 French windows in lengthened original window openings to ground floor, similar sashes and blind window as to right return, but all windows here beneath segmental arches. Rear has 6- panel door and overlight, four 2-light windows with glazing bars, beneath segmental arches. Interior. Stairhall has good profiled cantilevered stone staircase with moulded nosing, ramped and wreathed corniced mahogany handrail, wrought-iron balustrade with alternating pairs of column balusters and scrolled interlaced panels with rosette ornament, column-on-vase newel; moulded plaster cornice, tall stairwell to rear with elliptical-arched openings to first-floor passage, boldly-moulded cornice. Drawing room, ground floor right: good grey and brown marble chimney-piece with tapered fluted pilasters carrying panelled frieze with roundels to dosserets and fluted insets to frieze; ornate moulded cornice with ribbed frieze. Dining room, ground floor left: pilastered grey marble chimney-piece, moulded cornice with open-work grapevine motif and ribbed frieze. Study, rear left, has ribbed cornice. Secondary staircase to rear has moulded handrail, column newels and ribbed stick balusters. First-floor rooms have moulded cornices, and a series of chimney-pieces with panelled and ribbed pilasters, panelled and pulvinated friezes, and original ornate cast-iron grates; elliptical-arched alcoves to front bedrooms. 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves throughout, fielded-panel window shutters and window seats to main rooms. Dado rail and panelling to front rooms are C20. C19 photograph shows consoles to front windows. In 1833 Ridgemont was noted for its progressive farm and labourer's cottages, none of which survive. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, East Riding, 1978, p 206; H Alison Kay, William Stickney 1764-1848 (privately published), 1980, pp 48-49, 60-86; C Howard, A General View of the Agriculture of the East Riding, 1833, pp 130, 151.

Listing NGR: TA2448428766

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Sources

Books and journals
Kay, H A, William Stickney 1764-1848, (1980), 48-4960-86
Howard, C, A General View of the Agriculture of The East Riding, (1833), 130 151
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 206

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