Bylaugh Hall

Bylaugh Hall is a ruined country house dating from 1850 to 1852, designed by Charles Barry, junior, and R. Banks for the trustees of Sir John Lombe. The house is constructed with an ashlar facade over a brick base and is now roofless. It is built in the Elizabethan Prodigy House style. The main building is two storeys high with a basement and attics, and a further storey is added to the central bay.

The entrance facade has seven bays, featuring ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom windows; these are three-light in the central bay and two-light in the remaining bays. Bay divisions are emphasised by boldly projecting semi-rusticated pilasters topped with obelisks. The rusticated basement has plain chamfered mullion windows with two lights. A former strapwork parapet remains around the basement. Five out of six dormers survive, each with a segmental pediment and a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window. The central porch is elaborately decorated with angle pilasters featuring diamond rustication and bas relief carvings; it has a three-centred entrance arch, deeply carved arms above, and a pierced parapet with obelisks and heraldic beasts. Horizontal divisions incorporate a full entablature at each level, with a cartouche in each section of the frieze. Twin pilasters flank the main corners and taller centre bay, rising to form turrets. The garden facade, largely hidden by ivy, consists of a taller central bay flanked by two-storey rectangular bays. The west facade has five bays, with the centre three bays slightly recessed.