Wilbraham Temple

Wilbraham Temple is a house dating from the early 17th century, located on or near the site of a manor house of the Knights Templar. It has undergone extensive alterations in the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame with brick and plaster render, topped with slate roofs. It has tall rectangular chimney stacks from the 18th century and one original early 17th century grey gault brick ridge stack with six grouped shafts.

The principal front, which is from the early 19th century, has a timber frame and plaster render casing that covers the earlier structure. The house stands three storeys high, including a smaller attic storey, and is adorned with a parapet and main cornice. It has a range of five flush frame hung sash windows, each with fifteen panes, and smaller similar windows in the attic. The ground floor features windows on either side of a contemporary rendered porch with a flat roof and segmental arches on three sides.

To the left, there is a brick extension, also early 19th century, painted and with a low pitch slate roof. This extension is three storeys high, parapetted, and has two recessed hung sash windows with twelve panes each per storey, with smaller windows in the attic.

The garden elevation, on the northeast end, dates back to the early 17th century and was extended in the late 17th century. It has timber framing concealed by plaster render, two storeys and attics, and features two steeply pitched gables with 19th century two-storey canted bays with hung sashes flanking a doorway with an early 19th century doorcase.

Access to the interior was refused, but it is reported to contain early 17th century panelling. Other interior details are mostly from the late 18th or early 19th century, including an open-string staircase.