Billingbear House

BINFIELD

SU87SW CARTERS HILL 674-1/11/45 (South side) 20/12/72 Billingbear House

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Formerly known as: Forest Lodge CARTERS HILL. Large house in parkland with ha-ha. Mid C18, altered and extended mid C19 when the Factor's house and dairy were built; these now form part of the house. Altered C20. MATERIALS: Painted stucco and render, hipped slate roof of double span. PLAN: Irregular plan with projecting and recessed entrance front, projecting octagonal section to right of centre at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. 5 chimneys, all altered. Windows on front are 2 and 3-light casements with leaded, square lights with Gothic pointed arches under square heads, C19 sash windows on right hand section. Mullioned and transomed windows at rear, sash windows with glazing bars and trefoiled neads and openings in octagonal section. Entrance (north) front: 5 sections, on right former Factor's house and dairy. Former house of 3 bays with central, round roof lantern and central double door in enclosed Ionic porch with patterned segmental fanlight. To right of this, set back, is 3-bay section with double hipped roof. On right of this and on left of former house are single bay gable projections with hipped roofs. INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase with barley sugar balusters, wreathed handrail and closed carved string. Octagonal room on south, off sitting room, has rococo plaster work on ceiling; trees and garlands of fruit and flowers in high relief on walls.