Sibdon Castle

Sibdon Castle is a country house with an early 18th-century front built onto a 17th-century core. It is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone, with a hipped plain tile roof, some stone tiles to the rear, and brick panelled ridge and side stacks. The house is arranged in an E-shaped plan.

The exterior is two storeys, an attic, and has cellars, with a seven-window front. Late 19th-century sash windows with cambered heads are set in moulded cases with moulded stone architraves, featuring keyblocks. A moulded cornice sits above a parapet with pilastered battlements, rising at the ends and incorporating bull's-eye lights within circular architraves and keyblocks. A central Diocletian window is situated within a semi-circular moulded architrave. Steps and wing walls lead to an ashlar porch with a moulded cornice and flat lead roof, sheltering a semi-circular, quoined arch with studded plank double doors and diamond-glazed side lights. The interior of the porch features a continuous ceiling cornice and architraves, and double doors consisting of two paired eight-panel doors between panelled pilasters, flanked by matching sashes. Moulded circular openings provide access to the cellars. A rubble return side displays similar sashes in moulded cases, with a square panel in a moulded architrave to the first floor, and a recessed bay to the left with two tiers of sashes. Segmental arches are also present. The rear features two gabled wings with single stone mullion and transom windows with casements within moulded ashlar cases. Shouldered gables have ball finials, and there are four six-over-six sashes in moulded cases with moulded stone architraves and keyblocks. A central single-storey porch bay has steps and wing walls leading to a six-panel door and a barred fanlight with side lights within a 20th-century restored Venetian architrave and panel. The rainwater goods are inscribed “FBE”. A 19th-century single-storey wing is attached to the left.

The interior features a staircase with turned and barley-twist balusters and clustered newel posts, as well as panelling, decorative plasterwork, carved stone and bolection-moulded fireplaces, overmantels, and panelled doors. The building retains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.