The Park

The Park is a house located on Donington Station Street, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and a new front added around 1815. It features lined stucco, a hipped Collyweston slate roof with lead dressings, and deeply overhanging eaves, along with an axial rendered ridge stack. The building has a T-plan layout with a rear service range and stands two stories tall plus a cellar. The front has five bays with a plinth, a first-floor band, and an advanced central bay. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with a lion's head door knocker, flanked by panelled side panels and a traceried petaloid fanlight. A fluted Doric portico with columns in antis is present, alongside pairs of tall glazing bar sash windows with contemporary louvred shutters. The first floor has five additional glazing bar sashes. On the side, there is a canted ashlar bay window with a cornice and guilloche panels beneath the windows.

Inside, the house features a fine stick baluster staircase with a wreathed mahogany handrail and a carved cut string. The interior includes an egg and dart cornice with paterae and leaves, a central leaved circle, six-panel doors, and reveals. The hall has a diamond set flagged floor. Both front rooms have moulded cornices and shutters, with one room featuring a white marble fireplace surround with roundels and 19th-century tiled sides. The first floor contains a mid-18th-century cupboard door and panel, along with stone fireplace surrounds. The first-floor landing has a wide flat archway that supports the central stack, and one front bedroom has an early 19th-century fireplace with a harebell chain and papyrus fluted architrave. The kitchen features a large fireplace arch flanked by semi-circular headed arches. The cellar, dating from the early 18th century, has a simply chamfered beam and a leaded three-light window. The house was built for the Gleed family, whose early 19th-century monuments can be found in the nearby church.