Lessingham House

Lessingham House is an early 19th-century house, likely built around 1822 for the Reverend Henry Wilmot-Sitwell, and was originally a vicarage. It is constructed of red brick with a slate hipped roof, featuring lead rolls to the hips and ridge, and deep eaves. The house has brick axial stacks topped with yellow clay pots. The plan is rectangular, incorporating a central entrance on the east front and a service wing to the north.

The symmetrical east front has three bays and features 12-pane sash windows with keyed lintels, and ground-floor windows with side lights. A central doorway is framed by consoles supporting a pediment, above a glazed and panelled door. The other elevations have similar sash windows. The north side includes a lower, gable-ended wing on the left, with casement windows incorporating glazing bars, and a porch in the corner with a canopy over a panelled door.

The interior retains original joinery, including panelled doors and an open-well staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail with a wreathed curtail newel. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and marble chimney pieces are also present. A brick vaulted cellar is also part of the original fabric.