Shotley Park

Shotley Park is a house dating from 1842, originally built for Jonathan Richardson, the owner of Shotley Spa. Later additions were made in the late 19th century and around 1903 for the Priestman family, with a date and initials (JLP and ZNP) inscribed below a window on a bowed projection. The house is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

The main block is two storeys and three bays, with a two-storey, two-bay extension set back on the left. Further right extensions, one and three bays in width, are also set back, with a tower positioned between the later addition. Lower additions have been built in front of each of these extensions.

The main block features giant corner pilasters that support an entablature with a blocking course. The slightly projecting central bay contains a six-panel door and overlight within a Tuscan porch, also with an entablature and blocking course. A 20th-century pent roof with glass panels has been added around the porch. An early 20th-century bowed projection to the left has three large windows with glazing bars and an entablature. Other windows are sash windows with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills, as well as a first-floor band.

The two-bay left and one-bay right extensions also feature similar sash windows. The left extension has an early 20th-century conservatory on the ground floor under a pent roof, while the right has a one-story, one-bay addition on the ground floor, flush with the main front, and a bowed projection on its right return. The tower to the right and behind the bowed projection has a pedimented second story with paired round-headed windows, an impost string, and glazing bars. To the right, the three-bay addition has a ground-floor central half-glazed door, flanked by a large window to the left and a sash window to the right. Above are three bowed oriels with mullioned- and-transomed windows containing glazing bars.

The roofs are low-pitched, with two low-segmental-headed dormers on the left and right pitches of the main block, and one dormer on the front. Four panelled, corniced central stone stacks are connected by screens. Ridge chimneys are present on the extensions. A wooden loggia is located on the left return. The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.