Shotwick House

Shotwick House is a large house, dating from 1872, originally designed by John Douglas for Thornycroft Vernon. It has subsequently been altered and partly rebuilt after a fire in 1907, and is now an old peoples' home. The house is constructed of English bond orange and yellow brick with a red tile roof, and features tall brick stacks with strip pilasters and moulded caps. It is built in a Neo-Jacobean style with an E-plan layout.

The west garden front is nearly symmetrical with seven bays, extending over two and three storeys, and has a stone plinth and bands. A central canted bay window has a pyramidal roof. Plain sash windows are set within stone reveals on the lower level, while stone mullioned windows are above. The two bays to either side have four-light mullioned and transomed windows below, and three-light mullioned windows under tile-hung gables. The end bays are polygonal turrets with pyramidal roofs, finished with lead finials and weathervanes.

The east entrance front is of three storeys and features forward projections and multiple gables with strip pilasters in the gables. A projecting, buttressed porch with a spire has a four-centred arched doorcase featuring carved spandrels and the Vernon arms above. Large four-light mullioned and twin transomed windows with label moulds flank the porch, leading to a hall and stairwell. A band of Jacobean-style strapwork brickwork is around the north range.

The interior features an entry from the porch into a two-storey hall with a gallery of Jacobean balusters. A front room has a Neo-Classical style ceiling and fireplace. To the right, a room with oak panelling, pilasters carved with strapwork supporting the ceiling beams, a mechanical plaster ceiling, and a deep frieze is entered through a large semi-circular headed doorcase with radial glazing bars in the fanlight. A Jacobean-style well staircase is present, and a large room to the left of the hall has a ceiling divided into three panels with plaster running vine borders and a large mahogany fireplace with fluted Ionic columns. A light oak-panelled library is located in the south range. The upper floors are of lesser interest.