Bilbster House

Bilbster House is a roughly L-plan house that dates from the mid to late 18th century to the later 19th century. It is mainly two storeys high and features harled walls with ashlar margins. The earliest part of the house appears to be a two-storey and attic structure over a raised basement, with a tall, south-facing facade that has an irregular five-bay arrangement. The extreme left bays on both the ground and first floors are concealed by a two-storey passage addition that connects the west gable to a two-storey range running north-south.

The entrance is off centre in the earlier south-facing facade and is obscured by a glazed porch added around 1900. A wide canted window from the mid to late 19th century rises to full height in the outer right bay, with a later 19th-century canted dormer above it. At the rear, a single-storey wing projects six bays from the east corner, with an entrance that abuts the house. The remaining blind bays are marked by pale brick pilasters and a dentilled eaves course. The windows vary in size, mainly featuring 12-pane glazing, and the house has crowsteps, ridge and end stacks, and slate roofs.

Inside, there is little of interest; the ground and first floor rooms are illuminated by large south-facing canted bay windows that have ornate plaster cornices, and there is a semi-circular stairwell.