Eye Park

Eye Park is a country house located on Park Lane in Eye. Originally built in the late 15th century, it was completely rebuilt in the early 18th century and underwent further refacing and alterations in the early 19th century. The property was restored and modified between 1990 and 1994 by Peter Cleverley. The house features a rendered and colorwashed timber frame with some brick elements and has a pantiled roof.

The exterior is two storeys high, with the facade facing north. It has a twelve-window range of 6/6 unhorned sashes, including three windows in each of the two symmetrically-placed full-height canted bays. Each canted bay has a six-panelled and fielded door set within a timber doorcase, which is adorned with reeded pilasters and a plain entablature. Between the canted bays are three sashes on each floor, and beyond the bays, there is one sash on each floor, with an additional window bay to the east featuring a sash on the upper floor and a three-light casement below. The roof is hipped above a low parapet and features two ridge stacks.

The south front is bisected by single-storey outbuildings. To the west, there are three late 20th-century doors with Gothick tracery and three late 20th-century 3/3 sashes above. There is a late 20th-century ogee verandah at the first floor, with three similar first-floor sashes on the east half of the elevation, above mixed ground-floor fenestration. The roof has three gabled dormers with casements, and the east return is made of brick.

Inside, the west canted bay on the north side has minor plaster ceiling decoration on the ground floor. The central room features a chimneypiece with a reeded pulvinated frieze, and the east wall has a landscape mural from 1993 by Anthony Maitland. The east centre room has a hollow-chamfered four-centred fireplace, also from 1993. The west ground-floor room includes cruciform sunk-quadrant-moulded bridging beams. The roof of the central section has one transverse late 15th-century tie beam on arched braces, with a mortice socket in the upper face for a crown post, while the remainder of the roof is early 18th century, featuring one tier of staggered butt purlins and collars.