Wheatbrig'S House

Wheatbrig's House is a house with a conservatory and an outbuilding, built in the mid-18th century and altered in the 19th century. It was likely constructed for John or William Aislabie as part of the garden layout for Studley Royal House. The building features red brick in Flemish and random bond, with English bond used for the first-floor flanking bays, and has ashlar details and a Westmorland slate roof.

The house is two storeys tall and has three bays, with the central bay slightly projecting and featuring a pediment. There are ashlar plinth and sill bands. The central door, dating from the 20th century, is set in a stone architrave and is flanked by narrow 10-pane sash windows in round-arched architraves. To the left, there is a wooden canted bay window with glazing bars, and to the right, a sash window with glazing bars in a stone architrave. On the first floor, there are three 4-pane sash windows in stone architraves, along with an oculus with glazing bars and an architrave in the pediment. The house has an ashlar parapet with pineapple finials at the corners and a hipped roof with stacks flanking the central bay.

To the left of the house is a wall with a lean-to conservatory, and to the right is a single-storey outbuilding with two bays, featuring a 20th-century door and a 16-pane sash window. The house served as the estate steward's house in the 19th century but was probably originally built as a gardener's house. It is prominently visible from one of the focal points of the park, situated on high ground to the north of the lake. The tithe map from 1838 shows this building among the large enclosed gardens and greenhouses that served Studley Royal House. The conservatory attached to the house and the high garden wall to the east are remnants of those gardens. The style of the central door and flanking windows is similar to that found at Duck House, Studley Roger, where the architraves are designed in the form of a pointed arch.