Lesbury House

Lesbury House is a house dating from around 1800, incorporating an earlier 18th-century rear wing. Significant extensions were added by the Browne family in the mid-19th century. The front and left return are built of ashlar stone, with diagonally-tooled stonework on the ground floor and vertically-tooled stone above. Other parts of the house use squared, tooled stone, and the roofs are covered in Welsh slate. The original part of the house has an L-shaped layout, while the mid-19th-century east extension includes rear wings that now enclose a former stable yard.

The south elevation of the main block is two storeys high with five bays, arranged asymmetrically. It features a plinth and sill bands. A renewed fielded-panel door is set within a renewed surround with pilasters, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course, and is accessed by three steps. The windows are 12-pane sashes, and there is a moulded eaves cornice. A hipped roof is topped by two stepped and corniced ridge stacks. To the right is a single-storey, three-bay section added in the mid-19th century, matching the style and fenestration of the rest of the house. A coped gable at the right end has a corniced stack. The left return is similar, with three bays, but the central bay windows are blind. A four-bay rear wing is set back to the left, displaying varied window arrangements, including paired eight-pane sashes under lintels with diamond-shaped keystones; the left-end bay is a 19th-century extension. The rear elevation of the main block has an arched window with intersecting glazing bars above a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window with external iron bars.

Inside, the sitting room retains its original cornice, decorated with egg-and-dart and acanthus ornament. A dog-leg staircase has stick balusters, a moulded and ramped handrail, moulded newels, and shaped tread ends. There are two segmental-arched, chamfered fireplaces from the early 18th-century kitchen in a room adjacent to the present kitchen. The Sitting Room, Library and Drawing Room contain carved stone Adam fireplaces that originally came from Alnwick Castle.