Bilbrough Manor

Heritage listing

Details The folllowing item shall be added: SE 54 NW BILBROUGH MAIN STREET 2/134 Bilbrough Manor II Country House. 1902. Built for Guy Thomas Fairfax by Temple Moore. Brick with rough cast render and ashlar dressings, with plain tile roofs and 13 chimney stacks. Ashlar coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. 2 storey. South, garden front 11 windows with single gables at either end. Off centre doorway with moulded ashlar surround and 12 panel door with to right a 2 light mullion window, both topped by a large coat of arms in a sunken panel. This coat of arms to the Fairfax family comes from the earlier house and is 1595. To the left a pair of cross mullion windows, then a triad of 3 light cross mullion windows and a single cross mullion window beyond. To the right a pair of similar windows with 3 single similar windows beyond, then a further pair of cross mullion windows, that to the left with an inserted glazed door. Beyond 2 altered windows, a filled round arch and a further altered window. Above 4 central single cross mullion windows with to the left a pair of similar windows then 2, 3 light cross mullion windows and beyond a gabled 4 light similar window and a small fixed light. To the right a pair of tall cross mullion windows, then a single similar window and beyond a pair of tall cross mullion windows in the right gable. The east front has a central round headed niche with stone seat and a raised step. To the left a pair of 3 light cross mullion windows, and to the right an altered 4 light similar window, and beyond a single similar window. Above a single gable dormer with a 4 light mullion window. The north entrance front has a 4 gabled, front with an off-centre projecting 2 storey porch with a 4 centred arched opening with above a C17 coat of arms to the Fa

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.