# The Ridding

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{{Short description|Victorian country house in Bentham, North Yorkshire}}
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'''The Ridding''' is a Victorian [country house](/source/country_house) located in the village of [Bentham](/source/Bentham%2C_North_Yorkshire), [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire), England. It is recorded in the [National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England) as a designated Grade&nbsp;II [listed building](/source/Listed_building).<ref name=nhl>{{NHLE |num= 1157454|desc= The Ridding, Bentham|accessdate= 21 February 2013|mode=cs2}}</ref>

It was built in [Scottish Baronial](/source/Scottish_Baronial_architecture) style for B.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;Bent by [E.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Paley](/source/Edward_Graham_Paley) in 1857–60, the only building designed in this style by Paley.<ref>{{Citation | last = Brandwood| first = Geoff| last2 = Austin| first2 = Tim| last3 = Hughes| first3 = John| last4 = Price| first4 = James| year = 2012| title = The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin| publication-place = Swindon| publisher = [English Heritage](/source/English_Heritage)| pages = 71, 218| isbn = 978-1-84802-049-8}}</ref> It is built of squared [rubble](/source/rubble) with [sandstone](/source/sandstone) [ashlar](/source/ashlar) dressings and a [slate](/source/slate) roof. The frontage has three [bays](/source/bay_(architecture)) in two storeys and incorporates a short two-stage tower at the left.<ref name=nhl/>

==History==
The house was built in 1857–60 for Baldwin Harry Bent. It was later owned by Joseph Teale, a medical doctor, whose only daughter Alice Catherine married Robert Garnett in 1880, who was a [Justice of the Peace](/source/Justice_of_the_Peace) for Lancashire and the North Riding. Alice died in 1900 and Robert remarried. He died in 1921 leaving a son Richard Everard Garnett.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur|year=1970|title= Armorial families; a directory of some gentlemen of coat-armour, showing which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority|page= 93|ISBN=9780715347652}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[Listed buildings in Bentham, North Yorkshire](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Bentham%2C_North_Yorkshire)
*[List of non-ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley](/source/List_of_non-ecclesiastical_works_by_E._G._Paley)

==References==
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Category:Houses completed in 1860
Category:Country houses in North Yorkshire
Category:E. G. Paley buildings
Category:Scottish baronial architecture
Category:Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire
Category:Bentham, North Yorkshire

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