Ribbesford House

RIBBESFORD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329928
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Ribbesford House
Statutory Address:
RIBBESFORD HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329928
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Ribbesford House
Statutory Address 1:
RIBBESFORD HOUSE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RIBBESFORD HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Ribbesford
National Grid Reference:
SO 78642 73840

Details

SO 77 SE RIBBESFORD CP RIBBESFORD

5/299 Ribbesford House

20.10.52

- II*

Country house, now flats. Mid-C16, partly rebuilt late C17, remodelled early C19 with some mid-C20 alterations. Rendered brick with tile roof. Main range aligned north-west/south-east, with a service range extending north-east from north-west end. North front: three storeys with attic lit by gabled dormers, service range projects to right; in angle between two a C19 two-storey range with three timber cross-windows; rest of front: to left slightly advanced gabled bay with a square bay window rising to first floor, then three stone cross-windows, a 4-light window in projecting porch, then two stone windows to right of porch; second floor has a 3-light window to left, then three 2-light windows, a <-light window in porch and two 2-light windows to right; ground floor: square bay to left, three stone cross-windows, and to right of porch a 3-light window and a square bay; entrance in porch is flanked by engaged fluted Doric columns supporting entablature and moulded cornice; the plinths are decorated with lozenges, the two-leaf half-glazed door is under a semi-elliptical head. South (garden) front: right-hand -part: three storeys with attic; two octagonal towers flank the entrance capped by leaded onion domes, central window is a canted oriel with decorative parapet, each tower is flanked by a 3-light window on first and second floor; entrance has a loggia with four Doric columns and balustrade to parapet, door is two-leaf and half-glazed; left- hand part: three storeys with attic lit by three dormers, five windows, a mixture of 2- and 3-lights. Interior: stairhall has C16 moulded ceiling beams, the staircase is early C19 with cast iron balusters. The house was originally moated, but the moat was mostly infilled in the late C18. Graded II* for the potential archaeological interest of the fabric. (VCH 4, p 297; BoE, p 250; S Price, 1974, Ribbesford House (S0/787738), Worcestershire Archaeology and Local History Newsletter, no 14, pp 9 - 10).

Listing NGR: SO7864273840

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
156949
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 250
Price, S, Worcestershire Archaeology and Local History Newsletter in Ribbesford House, Vol. 14, (1974), 9-10

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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