Bicton House

Bicton House is a late 18th-century house constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, and likely covered by a slate roof. It is a three-storey building with a stone plinth and a parapet featuring moulded stone coping, which returns to gable ends treated as open triangular pediments with stone copings. Brick ridge stacks are positioned centrally and to the north.

The east front has three bays with glazing bar sashes, painted stone cills, and gauged-brick heads. The first-floor windows have plate glass sashes, while the outer second-floor windows are blind and painted to resemble sashes. Central first- and second-floor windows are distinguished by lugged and shouldered moulded architraves; the first floor window's cill rests on two fluted brackets. A six-panelled front door, with the lower two panels flush, the upper panels raised and fielded, sits beneath a moulded impost band, a cast-iron radial fanlight decorated with husk and other ornament, and an Ionic doorcase composed of fluted three-quarter columns with fluted capitals supporting sections of an entablature with a triglyph frieze and an open triangular pediment with mutules. Two stone steps lead to the door. The east front is flanked by 18th-century downpipes with moulded semi-circular lead rainwater heads.

The right-hand gable end features three bays with glazing bar sashes. The first-floor windows and central ground- and second-floor windows are blind and painted to mimic sashes. A raised half-H stone panel with a moulded cornice sits above the gable. The left-hand gable end has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement; glazing bar sashes are present, and a full-height canted bay is centrally positioned, with a moulded stone coping to its parapet. Again, the outer second-floor windows are blind, painted to simulate sashes.

The rear of the house is two storeys with an attic, featuring dormer windows.

Inside, a fine late 18th-century swept dog-leg oak staircase is located to the left of the front door. This features an open string with cut brackets, balusters consisting of clustered reeds with acanthus capitals, a swept handrail, a wreathed foot newel, and a balustrade that returns to the landing. The first-floor landing has a plaster cornice decorated with alternating dentils and paterae. A round archway with a radial fanlight connects the entrance hall and a rear corridor.