Hammerwood Park

Hammerwood Park is a large sandstone ashlar mansion built around 1790, designed by the Sussex architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who later emigrated to America in 1795. The building is currently empty and has boarded-up windows. It features a central section flanked by two wings. The central part has two storeys and five windows, projecting forward, with the three central window bays further emphasized by pilasters. There is a string course above the ground floor and cornices above both the first and second floors. The roof is slate, and the glazing bars are missing. The ground floor has French windows, with semi-circular tympana over the three central ones.

The wings, which house the library and dining room, are set back and also have two storeys with four windows each. The end window bays of each wing project and feature a tetrastyle portico on the ground floor, raised on a podium, with columns supporting a pediment that intersects with the first-floor window. Coade-ware plaques are positioned above the doorways. There are five round-headed arches connecting the porticos to the central section; the west arch has a door, one has a window, and three are blind, while the east arch contains a door, two windows, and two are blind. The first-floor windows have Venetian shutters, and the north or entrance front has substantial three-light windows with intact glazing bars and architraves above. A porte cochere is supported by coupled fluted Doric columns and pilasters on either side. There is also a service wing to the north-east.