The Hook House

The Hook House is a house built in 1839, designed as an asymmetrical Tuscan-style villa influenced by Loudon's Encyclopaedia. It features painted stucco and a slate roof, standing at 2-3 storeys with attics. The south elevation showcases a three-window broad gable end on the right, with banding and a recessed central door on the ground floor, flanked by narrow windows. Above, there are three round-headed windows on the first floor with intermediate blanks. At the center, a four-storey gabled tower has a relieving arch on the first and second floors, with square attic windows flanked by simple pilasters. To the left is a three-window service wing. The east and north elevations include canted ground floor window bays, with the east bay having slight gabled projections. The house features a floor band and a wide eaves canopy throughout, with recessed sash windows.

Inside, there is a large open-well staircase from the early 18th century, believed to have originated from Gobions House. Each tread is adorned with iron twist, barley twist, and fluted balusters, while the sides are decorated with acanthus scrolls. The walls are embellished with 18th-century Flemish tapestries. The ground floor room to the east has Adam-style husk and foliage friezes, and the north room features 17th-century-style panelling with an alcove on the west side, flanked by fluted Doric columns.