Budby Castle

Budby Castle is an eye catcher and estate cottage, constructed in 1789. It was likely designed by John Carr for the Earl Manvers. The building is built of dressed stone and brick, with slate roofs, and features ashlar dressings. It is constructed in a castellated style, incorporating three stacks within corner towers. Architectural details include a plinth, moulded string course, eaves, and a crenellated parapet. There are two storeys and three unequal bays, comprising two square blocks with round corner towers.

Windows are a mixture of Gothick, Moorish, and plain casements. Square windows have projecting architraves, and most windows are topped with hood moulds. The main north front features a crenellated screen wall with a hatch to the left, followed by a two-storey block containing an octagonal corner tower, a central square tower, and a further square corner tower to the right. A pointed door with a hood mould is to the left, while a Gothick casement is to the right. Above these, there is an unglazed opening, a casement, and a Moorish casement. A taller block to the right has four crenellated three-storey corner towers with blind crosslets. The central Gothick casement is flanked by single Moorish casements. Above, a central casement is flanked by single Moorish arched openings.

The west front has a central blank pointed opening flanked by Moorish arched openings, the rightmost having a casement. Above, a blank central panel is flanked by single Moorish casements. The south front contains, to the left, a pointed opening with an inserted French window, flanked to the left by a pointed glazed door with a Gothick overlight, and to the right by a 20th-century casement. Above, a central square casement is flanked by single Moorish casements. To the right is a wall with a pointed glazed door with a Gothick overlight, above which is a square casement. A projecting lower block to the right has square corner towers, with a casement in the western tower. A large 20th-century casement is present, above which is a central Moorish casement.

Adjoining small boundary walls have chamfered coping. To the right are 19th-century outbuildings of single-storey, four-bay design. To the east are two pairs of garage doors and a square hatch. The building is part of a complete estate village laid out by Earl Manvers of Thoresby Park between 1807 and 1812. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are present.