Hilmarton Manor

Hilmarton Manor is a country house, originally built in the mid-19th century as a shooting lodge. It was subsequently enlarged, with a large rear wing added around 1910. The house was built for the Poynder family. Constructed of squared rubble stone with a stone slate roof, the building features prominent ashlar stacks. It is two storeys high and designed in a Tudor cottage style with leaded stone mullion windows, with mullion-and-transom windows to the ground floor.

The original section is likely an L-shaped range to the centre and left of the east front, with a gabled porch projecting forward from the angle of a cross wing. The cross wing has a ridge stack and a west end stack, while the main range has a pair of octagonal rear wall stacks. The cross wing has a gable-end three-light window above a stone, one-light, three-light, one-light canted bay. The porch has an ashlar gabled front with a depressed arched entry and a hoodmould with carved head stops. To the left of the porch on the main range, there are two-light windows on each floor, with the upper window breaking the eaves under a dormer gable. The south end gable features an ashlar canted bay with a pierced parapet, and an upper window with a hoodmould and carved animal head stops. To the right of the cross wing gable on the east front is a matching one-window section with a north stack, two-light windows on each floor, and an upper window under a dormer gable; this section may be an early addition.

A service range is attached at the rear north west angle. The east gable of this range has an ashlar bellcote and four-centred arched windows with hoodmoulds, two-light above a moulded string, a door and a three-light window below. The door is set within a three-sided Tudor-arched open stone porch, set into the north wall of the main house. A large rear wing was added to the southwest around 1910, featuring a flat-roofed, two-story block in the angle and a gabled cross wing at the west end.

The house, formerly known as Hilmarton Lodge, was the principal house of the Poynder family’s Hilmarton estate and was sold in 1914 by the 1st Lord Islinqton. It incorporates stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.