Park Hall

Park Hall is an early to mid-18th century house with substantial alterations from the early 19th century. The front elevation facing Crooms Hill has three-and-a-half storeys and three windows. It is built of red brick with rusticated stucco quoins. A heavy stucco cornice, incorporating moulding and dentils, runs above the second floor, with a smaller cornice above, topped by a stone-coped parapet that conceals the roof. The windows are replaced recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set within segment-headed, shouldered stucco surrounds. A two-storey canted bay window is on the left-hand side, with three windows, the lower ones round-arched. The central entrance is round-arched, featuring a radial fanlight above a replaced double door with six fielded panels.

The rear elevation, facing Park, is of similar style and has five windows, with sunk panel pilasters in the upper half-storey and a segment-headed entrance with architrave and cornice. Later additions have been made to the south-east.

Inside, an early 18th century staircase features a cut string, twist balusters (two to a tread) with square knops graded in height, and a ramped handrail. Fluted newel posts are present, and there is carving on the side string of the upper flights. It is believed the house was once the residence of Sir James Thornhill, the painter of the ceiling in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College.