Bedstone Court

It is occupied by Bedstone College, an independent educational establishment, and is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The red brick and black-and-white timbered house was built between 1882 and 1884, to a design by architect Thomas Harris, for Sir Henry Ripley,[1] a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and Member of Parliament.

The multi-gabled three-storey house has wooden mullioned and transomed windows and is a "calendar house", reputed to have 365 windows, 52 rooms (on the first 2 floors), 12 chimneys and 7 external doors.

The Ripley family sold the house for educational purposes in about 1950.

The building was badly damaged by a fire in 1996 but was fully restored and continues to be the centrepiece of Bedstone College.