Berry Hill Hall

Berry Hill Hall is a country house on Berry Hill Lane in Mansfield, originally constructed in the early 18th century and significantly enlarged for William Bilbie around 1770, with further additions in the 19th and mid-20th centuries. A north wing, probably early 18th-century in origin, was enlarged around 1770 and received further additions in the early and late 19th centuries.

The house is constructed in ashlar and coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, topped with hipped slate roofs and four coped stone ridge stacks. The exterior displays a ground-floor sill band and dentillated eaves throughout.

The east front presents three storeys plus attics in a 6-window range, with a single bay addition to the right and a 2-storey service wing beyond. To the left stands a 19th-century addition of two storeys with a 3-window range. The central block contains six boarded sashes at ground level and six smaller plain sashes above, all with projecting surrounds, topped by two late 19th-century hipped dormers. Below the central block, to the left, are four boarded sashes with projecting surrounds. To the right stands a canted hipped bay window with three boarded sashes. An additional bay to the right features a tall boarded sash and above it two smaller windows—one a sash and one a casement—with a boarded tripartite sash below. The service wing displays two large boarded sashes to the left and a smaller boarded window to the right. The 19th-century addition to the left features a canted bay window on the first floor with three boarded sashes, below which is a projecting flat-roofed single storey with a tripartite boarded window on each side, flanked by boarded single sashes. To the left of this addition are two sashes on each floor, with the upper ones fake and the lower ones boarded.

The rear (west side) comprises a 3-storey block with four windows, boarded first-floor windows and smaller plain sashes above. A further service block of two storeys stands to the west, with a 7-window south front of boarded sashes with stone surrounds. A pyramid-roofed bridge on the first floor with a tripartite window links the 3-storey block to the service block.

The south wing dates to the early 19th century with late 19th-century additions and presents two storeys with a 7-window range of tall boarded sashes. A projecting ground floor is topped with a balustrade, and a projecting central bay features boarded double doors and an overlight, flanked by pilaster buttresses and topped with a pediment. On either side stand three sashes. The ground floor below has its own projecting central bay with boarded double doors and overlight, flanked by pilaster buttresses, with three sashes to the left and a projecting square bay to the right (containing a single sash flanked by pilaster buttresses) to the right of two additional sashes.

The west side displays five windows, with four boarded sashes to the left and a blank to the right. Below, to the right, stands a square bay with boarded double doors flanked by pilaster buttresses and topped with a balustrade. Central boarded double doors to the left are flanked by single boarded sashes.

The interior contains a fine cantilevered single-flight and return staircase with an ornate iron balustrade, mahogany handrail, and ramped dado with fielded panels, lit by an oval skylight. Most reception rooms feature dado panelling and fine wooden doorcases and doors. One room retains a fine Adam-style plaster ceiling.

The building was used as a miners' rehabilitation centre until approximately 1990.