Hillborough Manor House

Hillborough Manor House is a mansion dating to around 1600, incorporating earlier 16th-century fabric, with an 18th-century extension to the north and 20th-century restoration. The main structure is built of dressed blue lias stone, with narrow coursed rubble to the rear. Sections of timber-framing with plaster infill and painted brick are also present, and the roof is tiled with stone lateral stacks featuring brick shafts, and brick ridge stacks. The house has an L-shaped plan.

The west elevation has a four-window range, with a three-storey cross wing on the left end. A French window is located to the left of a lateral stack, alongside two windows with wooden-chamfered mullioned lights. The first floor has two-light windows to the left of the stack, an 8/8 horned sash window, and a two-light window to the right. The left wing has four-light wooden-chamfered mullioned windows on each floor. The re-entrant stack features diagonal brick shafts, and the lateral stack has star-plan brick shafts. The left return has a gable end with basement openings with chamfered wooden frames, and single and three-light windows to the ground and first floors, alongside a four-light window to the attic. A wing to the left features close-studded timber-framing to the first floor over narrow rubble courses; an extension to the left has alternate wide courses of rubble. The entrance has a plank door and a five-light window to the ground floor, and three- and five-light windows to the first floor. A further extension to the left incorporates two large and one small window to the ground floor with brick segmental heads over three-light small-paned casements, and two first-floor windows with 20th-century small-paned casements. The right return includes an ashlar three-light, double-chamfered mullioned window to the attic. The rear elevation features a re-entrant gabled stair wing with wooden-chamfered mullioned single-light and three-light windows, as well as a similar six-light transomed window to the left, and a Tudor-headed entrance with a blank shield above to the left end. A brick section extends to the first floor, mirroring the timber-framed section. Two entrances are present, one with a 20th-century stable door and one to the right end with a plank door. Windows have small-paned casements, with a 20th-century oriel and one old casement with an iron opening on the first floor. Gabled roofs are present throughout.

The interior features richly moulded 17th-century ceiling beams, along with heavy chamfered beams. Plank doors with strap hinges are also present, as is re-set 17th-century panelling in the north-west room. Timber-framed partition walls are visible, including one with an ogee-headed former hatch. A heavy 16th-century stair leads to a turret, and fireplaces have bressumers.

Hillborough Manor House is a good example of a 16th-century manor house, forming a group with a dovecote and converted farm buildings. Local tradition, possibly based on a mistake in a church register, claims that a woman known as "Shakespeare's other Anne" is buried in the now-extinct churchyard.