Purley Hall including stable yard adjoining to east

Purley Hall is a house dating from 1609, with significant alterations in the 18th century (circa 1720), 19th century (circa 1818-20 and 1869), and 20th century (1906). It is located in Purley on Thames, with an adjoining stable yard to the east. Originally listed under a different address, and previously including a sundial, the house is constructed of red brick with Bath stone and rendered dressings, and has a slate roof. The building has a half H-plan with gables facing east and south.

The west front incorporates a rusticated basement, rendered quoins, and a string course. The gable ends feature coped parapets with finials and five stacks with paired octagonal shafts. The projecting wings have six-light mullioned and transomed windows on both floors, with returned hoodmoulds above the first-floor windows. A central first-floor window is a glazing-bar sash with a visible wooden box and stone architrave. Circular basement windows are also present. A central 19th-century porch with wrought-iron balustrades leads to a four-centred archway with a half-glazed door, curved spandrels, an overlight, side lights, and carved details including a date, initials (H. W.), and a coat of arms. Further additions are recessed to the left, with a ground floor curving forward to incorporate half-glazed doors and windows. A 18th-century brick wall encloses the stable yard to the left, featuring a brick plinth, flint and brick checkerwork, and angled brick coping. The south front has two canted bay windows, and the east front has a single canted bay window and glazing-bar sashes. A later stable yard extends to the north, with an 18th-century enclosing wall to the west and converted stables with a weathervane to the east.

The interior Entrance Hall contains early 18th-century Thornhill-style grisaille wall paintings and an 18th-century staircase with carved tread ends, twisted balusters, and a Corinthian column as a newel post. The Dining Room has a late 17th-century plaster ceiling, a 17th-century panelled fireplace overmantel, and carved wooden strips salvaged from former stables, depicting equestrian equipment. The Drawing Room features painted heraldic glass. The Book Room contains a large 17th-century panelled fireplace overmantel with shaped pilasters, carved brackets, linenfold panelling, and painted glass depicting a sundial, dated 1734. Extensive 17th and 18th-century panelling is found throughout the house, alongside some 19th-century ceilings and fittings. The house was originally built for Francis Hyde, and Warren Hastings resided there from 1778 to 1794. The grounds were initially laid out by Charles Bridgeman in 1720-21 and subsequently altered by Humphry Repton around 1794.