Bilbrook Lodge

Bilbrook Lodge is a farmhouse that has been converted into a dwelling. It dates from the 16th to 17th centuries and underwent alterations in the early 19th century and mid-20th century. The building is constructed from red sandstone random rubble, with rendered facades and some exposed rubble on the ground floor of the main block. It features a slight bell cast to the slate roof, brick stacks at the gable ends, and an external 20th-century brick stack on the right return of a lower gabled wing that projects from the left end. The layout is U-shaped with an addition on the left facade.

The house is two storeys high and has a 1:3 bay arrangement. All windows are casements, including late 18th to early 19th-century casements with large diamond panes and marginal glazing bars. There are remnants of a 17th-century moulded 3-light casement on the left, and the right side has three 3-light casements under wooden lintels, some featuring quadrant stays. To the left of a single-storey porch, there are French windows with marginal glazing bars, set below a longer narrow wooden lintel supported by two partially exposed studs, though its original purpose is unclear.

Additionally, there is a single-storey hipped slate-roofed summer house projection supported by wooden uprights. The porch has a moulded depressed arch opening and features a moulded plinth with a 5 x 3-light glazed door. Sir Hubert Herkomer, a successful Victorian painter known for his social realism, stayed at Bilbrook Lodge from 1892 to 1897. The village of Bilbrook was also popular with other artists in the late 19th century, including J W North and R W Macbeth.