Bilsborough Hall

BILSBORROW SD 54 SW 8/25 Bilsborough Hall 26-11-1975 - II

Large house, c.1912, extended 1924. Snecked sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. C17 vernacular style, with rebated and chamfered mullioned windows. At the right of the facade-is a symmetrical 3-bay block with 3 gables. On the ground floor the outer bays have single-storey bay windows with 4 lights at the front and one light to each of their return walls. The middle bay has 2 one-light windows. The 1st floor windows are of 3 lights. Set back at the left is a lower range which has a one-bay cross-wing projecting slightly at its left. This has a window of 4 lights on the ground floor and of 3 above. To the right the ground floor is covered by a lean-to porch roof which extends as a canopy over a 3-light window to the right of the door.Above it is a 2-light window under a small gable. At the left of the facade is a projecting wing, added in 1924 in the same style and containing a music room (deposited plans in Lancashire Record Office). To its right a gabled bay with one-light windows links it to the existing building. The added wing has a 2-storey canted bay window which has 6 lights with mullions and transom in the centre on the ground floor, and 2 lights with transom to the outer sides. On the 1st floor it has 3 lights to the centre and one to each outer side. Above the stone roof of the bay and under the coped gable there is a one-light attic window. Chimneys have grouped square shafts. Inside, the entrance hall has panelling of C17 type, an inglenook fireplace, and a dog-leg stair with turned balusters and moulded handrail. The music room has a decorated plaster ceiling in an early C17 style.

Listing NGR: SD5233940107