Binfield Park

Binfield Park is a large country house, dating from 1775, and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is now used as a hospital and is situated within parkland, including Wicks Green. The house is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with slate hipped roofs. The primary structure is rectangular, with extensions to both ends.

The west front, which serves as the main entrance, is arranged with three storeys and two storeys and has sash windows with glazing bars. It features a stone frieze, cornice, and blocking course. The central block comprises five bays, with the second floor set back and featuring irregular window placement. The first floor has a stone cornice, and a central gable with a Venetian window. The ground floor windows are lunettes. The central entrance has a six-panel door, a cornice, a patterned leaded fanlight, a moulded architrave, and a Doric prostyle porch with a triglyph frieze, mutule cornice and open pediment. A wing projects to the left, two storeys high with five bays, and a 20th-century extension at the end. Another wing projects to the right, also of five bays, but with transomed casements on the ground floor. Single-storey extensions are located in the angles, the left one featuring lunettes.

The east front is symmetrical, with nine bays. It has a stone plinth, platband, a string at first floor sill level, a dentilled cornice, a moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The central three bays slightly project, featuring a pediment and a first-floor centre window flanked by stone pilasters and a cornice on brackets, leading to a small balcony with plain iron balustrading. Below this is a pair of glazed doors, accessed by three stone steps, with a two-light fanlight incorporating a circular head, keystone, and a vermiculated stone surround. Windows in bays two and eight have moulded cornices. A two-bay single-storey extension projects from the right.

The interior retains several Adam-style chimneypieces with swags and marble insets. A lounge contains a 20th-century suspended ceiling, underneath a plasterwork ceiling, along with panelled window shutters with bead ornament. A niche with a shell top and swags is set into the south wall, and panelled doorcases have moulded architraves, floral decoration, dentilled and moulded cornices. The dining room has an acanthus leaf cornice, and ceilings enriched with festoons, urns, and paterae. A “pink room” includes dado panelling, a marble fireplace with paterae, swags, acanthus leaf brackets, and a moulded cornice, alongside two four-panel cupboards with similar ornament. An open-well staircase has scrolled iron balusters and a moulded handrail.