Description

TF 91 NE
3/5

BEETLEY
East Bilney
CHURCH ROAD (east side)
Bilney House including adjoining outbuildings

- II

Former rectory. 1836 by William Donthorn for Reverend Henry Collison.
Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Gothick style. 2 storeys with attic and extensive cellars. 3-bay entrance facade with central 2-storey gabled porch. 3-centred entrance arch with carved spandrels and a 2-leaf panelled front door. Gable with arms and traceried peak finial. Polygonal angle pilasters rising to form crenellated turrets on external corners including porch. A pair of 3-light mullion windows with cusped ogee traceried heads to ground floor. 3 2-light first floor windows in similar style. All windows with rectangular hood moulds and carved head label stops. Moulded plinth coping, stringcourse and cornice. Plain parapet. Single storeyed service adjunct to north with 2-light window in similar style and a single light cusped window. Garden facade irregular with a slightly projecting gabled bay to east side with polygonal angle pilasters forming crenellated turrets supported on corbels at first floor level. Canted bay with tall traceried parapet. Blocked or intentionally blind lancet window in gable. Windows in same style as entrance facade with 3-light windows to ground floor and first floor of projecting bay, and 3 single light windows to first floor.
Former stables to east and servants' quarters to north both connected by tall walls with blind lancet windows and pilasters. Various later additions to rear of main block.
Interior retains many original fittings including plasterwork, fireplaces and stained glass all in a distinctive Gothick style.

Listing NGR: TF9577419405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26344158

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)