Description

STANWIX RURAL RICKERBY NY 45 NW

5/100 Eden School (formerly 1.4.57 listed as Rickerby House)

II

School formerly house. Probably 1835 for George Head Head. Calciferous sandstone ashlar walls, slate roof with lead hips, ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays to entrance facade. Tetrastyle entrance porch with Greek Doric columns, moulded entablature, dentilled cornice. Moulded window surrounds, projecting hood with scrolled brackets over ground floor windows and above entrance. Squared surround tripartite entrance with 6-panel door flanked by side lights with curvilinear glazing bars. String course, moulded and dentilled cornice. Garden front of 5 bays with side wings of 2 bays each: hexastyle portico. Listing includes 1879 extension with 3 storey tower, built for Miles McInnes and single storey 4 bay extension of brick facing garden with niches between sash windows. Interior restored 1982, includes moulded plaster ceilings, carved and moulded marble fireplaces and panelled doors. Built around and encasing earlier brick house of early or mid C18 (discovered during restoration). See, Life of Miles McInnes, 1910.

Listing NGR: NY4134257024

External Links

• Wikidata Q26620098

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