Paris House

Paris House is an estate house that is now used as a restaurant. A plaque on the front states, "This house was built at London by William Cubitt and Company for the Universal Exhibition holden at Paris in the Year of Grace MDCCCLXXVIII". The architect was Gilbert R. Redgrave, according to information from Bedford Estates. The house was purchased and moved to Woburn by Hastings, the 9th Duke of Bedford.

The building features ornate mock timber framing with colourwashed plaster infill, reflecting the style of 16th to 17th century decorative timber framing found in Lancashire and Cheshire. It has a clay tile roof and is designed in a T-plan over two storeys. The northwest elevation is symmetrical, featuring two-storeyed gabled projecting bays on either side of a broader two-storeyed porch bay, which is also gabled.

The windows throughout are mullion and transom style, showcasing a variety of ornamental geometric leading. The outer bays have five-light windows at the front and single-light windows on the sides. The central gable includes a six-light window set back under a porch arcade, with a four-light window on the first floor. The front door, located to the left under the porch arcade, has moulded geometrical panels.

The porch arcade consists of two bays with plain piers supporting elliptical arches, and the spandrels feature carved decorations, including the Prince of Wales feathers, as the Prince of Wales opened the exhibition. The entire building is adorned with various timber frame panels, as well as panels of carving, blind arcading, ornamental pilasters, and engaged colonnettes. Decorative pierced bargeboards enhance the appearance.

On the rear elevation, there is a central projecting gable that features an oriel window on the first floor, with an attic corbelled out to the same line above it. This gable is flanked by two red brick chimney stacks that project slightly and have linked moulded shafts. There is a 20th-century addition to the left side.