Billingbear House

Billingbear House is a large house set in parkland with a ha-ha, originally known as Forest Lodge. It was built in the mid 18th century and underwent alterations and extensions in the mid 19th century when the Factor's house and dairy were added, which are now part of the main house. Further alterations occurred in the 20th century.

The house is constructed of painted stucco and render, topped with a hipped slate roof of double span. It has an irregular plan featuring a projecting and recessed entrance front, with a projecting octagonal section to the right of the center at the rear.

The building stands two storeys high with a cellar and has five altered chimneys. The front windows are two and three-light casements with leaded, square lights featuring Gothic pointed arches under square heads, while the right-hand section has 19th-century sash windows. The rear includes mullioned and transomed windows, as well as sash windows with glazing bars and trefoiled heads and openings in the octagonal section.

The entrance front, facing north, consists of five sections. To the right is the former Factor's house and dairy. The original house has three bays with a central round roof lantern and a central double door set in an enclosed Ionic porch with a patterned segmental fanlight. To the right of this is a three-bay section with a double hipped roof, flanked by single bay gable projections with hipped roofs on both sides.

Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase featuring barley sugar balusters, a wreathed handrail, and a closed carved string. An octagonal room located to the south, off the sitting room, showcases rococo plasterwork on the ceiling, with trees and garlands of fruit and flowers in high relief on the walls.