Hunton Park

Country house, now offices. Built in 1909 by Hubbard and Moore for Reverend H.S. Gladstone. The building is constructed in brown-red brick with lighter red brick, stone and white painted wood dressings, with a hipped tiled roof in the Queen Anne Style.

The main facade is symmetrical with a 3:3:3 arrangement across two storeys and an attic. The central bays project slightly with quoins. Access is by way of polished marble steps leading to fielded panelled double doors at the central entrance. These are surmounted by a semi-circular fanlight with ironwork and a moulded archivolt with key block. The doorcase itself is ashlar with engaged Ionic columns and an open segmental pediment above.

On the first floor directly over the entrance is a gauged brick niche holding an urn, framed by an architrave with flanking pilasters featuring scrolled bases. The windows are flush frame glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads and stone key blocks. A moulded plinth and plat band run across the elevation with quoined returns. The eaves cornice features egg and dart dentils and modillions. Crowning the central section is a modillioned pediment with an oval light set within a plaster cartouche decorated with festoons. The roof carries six sashed hipped dormers and multiple stacks with stone cornices.

Set back from the main block are single storey link blocks connecting to wings on either side. To the right are a billiard room and conservatory with tripartite sashes flanked by Doric columns in antis, outer oval lights with stone blocked surrounds, and modillioned eaves rising to balustraded parapets. The conservatory projects further forward, displaying two large sashes with round arched traceried heads, intermediate pilasters, and a modillioned pediment above. The right return elevation contains three similar sashes with intermediate pilasters and outer oval lights.

The garden front follows a matching 3:3:3 arrangement. At ground floor level, the central section contains a shallow bow with three French windows set between four Ionic columns supporting an entablature, with an iron balconette above. The first floor features a full-length central window with scroll-based pilastered architraves. All garden sashes have brackets supporting small cornices for blind boxes. Decorative rainwater heads bear the date and initials. The single storey links on this elevation contain windows recessed behind small loggias.

A gazebo is attached to the service block by a wall, featuring a gauged brick round arch with an open modillioned pediment on capped pilaster strips, an apsidal interior with panelled seating on turned legs, and a cornice. The service block to the front left projects forward at right angles, with an entrance in an arched recess on its far elevation, partial modillioned eaves to a balustraded parapet, dormers, hipped roof and stone corniced stacks.

The interior contains a Doric entrance hall with groin vaulted corridors. Plasterwork ceilings and neo-classical fireplaces are evident throughout. A stair with vase balusters and moulded handrail leads to a central round domical lantern within a balustraded drum. Balustraded walls enclose terraces to the garden front and conservatory return, standing approximately one metre in height. Steps descend to the far right on the entrance front and to the centre towards the landscaped garden in two flights.

The building was formerly known as Hazelwood House. A late 20th century glazed link and a 19th century service block to the far left are not considered of special interest.