![]() Kitchen wing the elevation towards the east has been Office wing projects northwards at right angles to the The interior here has been greatly altered, though some The original staircase was probablyīetween the kitchen and the present dining room, but Refaced about 1700 on the south side, but it is now This wing, according to the 18thcentury view above referred to, appears to have been The kitchen, which is placedĪt the extreme west, was originally open to the roof,īut a floor has been inserted at the level of the tiebeams, and a partition now divides the lower portion Of the principal block, and roofed continuously with That in their original state these turrets were circularĪnd were then crowned by conical roofs. House in the possession of the present owner shows Anġ8th-century painting of the southern front of the Western of which are the principal stairs, which dateįrom the early 19th-century reconstruction. TheseĪre joined on the ground floor by a corridor at theīack of the hall, entered from the outside by a doorway placed centrally between the two turrets, in the Of the hall are two octagonal turrets rising above theĮaves of the roof and crowned by leaded cupolas. Supported by richly moulded beams of the originalĭate of the house, but the fireplace on the south andĪll other detail here is modern. Is entered at the north-west through a three-storiedĮntrance porch, which forms one of the principalįeatures of the northern elevation. Probably devoted to the pantry and buttery. As originallyĪrranged the space occupied by the dining room was The ground floor with the drawing room on the eastĪnd the dining room on the west. Height with an attic, contains a large entrance hall on The principalīlock, which faces north-east and is three stories in 5) The remaining portion, which is ofīrick and dates mainly from the first half of theġ6th century, was considerably altered in the 17thĬentury, and is now completely disguised externallyīy an early 19th-century facing of stucco with addedĭetails in an 'Elizabethan' manner. Moat round it, which can still be traced, though it wasįilled up about 1790, when much of the old house was Lived in the time of Henry II there was formerly a Stand on the site of that in which the Ribbesfords Of it was coppice that it could not 'strengthen a lord Sir Henry Herbert was advisedīy a friend not to buy the estate, as so great a part Immediately below the steeply rising ground of In 1627 as 'pleassant for the somer, but not healthfulįor the winter' (fn. Lime trees leads from it in the direction of Bewdley.Ī door in the churchyard wall opens into the garden Ribbesford, stands in a beautifully kept little churchyard not far from the river, and a narrow avenue of Of which 455 are arable, 1,560 under permanent Including the borough of Bewdley, nearly 3,713 acres, On the south-west by Gladder Brook it contains, Of land bounded on the east by the River Severn and The parish of Ribbesford covers a triangular piece Ribbedford, Ribeford (xi cent.) Rybbesford (xii
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