Lilburn Tower

Lilburn Tower is a country house built between 1828 and 1843 by John Dobson. It is constructed of ashlar with Welsh slate and lead roofs, featuring two storeys plus an attic. The building is a large, irregular structure in the Tudor style.

The garden front has three broad bays, with a slightly projecting central bay framed by octagonal turrets. This central bay includes a two-storey canted and embattled bay window beneath a shaped gable that displays a heraldic shield, flanked by obelisk finials and topped with an octagonal chimney. The adjacent recessed half-bays contain 2-light windows, while the full bays feature 5-light windows on the ground floor and 2-light windows under hoodmoulds on the first floor, all beneath shaped gables. To the right, there is a recessed single-storey wing with five tall, one-light windows and a conservatory that has a central gabled porch.

The entrance side also consists of three bays and includes an embattled porte-cochere with octagonal turrets. It has a recessed bay with a 5-light mullion-and-transom window and a projecting bay with an embattled canted oriel. To the left, there is a long, recessed service wing with 2-light windows and hoodmoulds on the ground floor. The main bays of the house project from the wall face, each topped with shaped gables and friezes of quatrefoils with Tudor roses above the ground floor. These friezes are connected by continuous bands, and most of the house is topped with a parapet featuring blind castellation. The building is adorned with many tall, corniced, diagonally-set chimneys.

Inside, the decoration follows a Gothic style. The dining room features a coffered ceiling, a fireplace, and a panelled dado with a built-in sideboard. The library includes panels with Decorated tracery and a panelled Tudor ceiling. The ballroom is divided into two parts, both with coffered ceilings featuring pendants, friezes, and fireplaces—one made of marble and the other of wood in a classical style with triple Corinthian colonettes. A cast iron Gothic staircase with a moulded wood handrail completes the interior.