Kilby Lodge

Kilby Lodge is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It was probably built in the 17th century and underwent significant remodeling around 1832 by Sir Henry Halford of Wistow Hall, who created it as a dower house for his daughter. The building is constructed of brick in English garden wall bond and features Swithland slate roofs arranged in diminishing courses. The plan includes a double-depth layout with a rear wing and a former stable block attached; parts of the wing and the rear section of the main range seem to incorporate an earlier timber-framed structure.

The house is two storeys tall with an attic. The front facade is symmetrical with a three-window range. It has a crenellated parapet on the outer bays and a steeply pitched coped gable at the center. A cornice band is interrupted by pilasters that rise to create four squat finials. The front features paired pointed 'Gothic' windows with bracketed sills and moulded surrounds beneath brick labels. The first floor has Y-tracery 11-pane sashes, while the ground floor has plate-glass hornless sashes. The central doorway has a six-panelled door set under a four-centred arch, flanked by single windows with 'Gothick' tracery. An open canted timber porch, with each facet gabled, leads to the entrance.

The side returns are under two gables, both with windows on all floors, including the attic. The front windows have been blocked to accommodate flues for end stacks. There is a late 20th-century window insertion to the right and a later 19th-century canted bay window with hornless sashes to the left. A third gabled range to the left, built a little later, features a casement window under a label above the canted bay. The rear wing and outbuildings have largely been refenestrated in the 20th century.

Inside, the floors are a mix of flag and tile. There is an open-well staircase located at the rear of the entrance hall, featuring a ramped rail, stick balusters (some made of cast iron), and panelled cupboards below. The fireplace surrounds have mostly been renewed, and the roof features side purlins.

This building is a notable example of a small 'Gothick' country house from the 1830s, likely designed by the same architect who worked on Sir Henry Halford's main residence at Wistow Hall. Halford was a Royal Physician.