Charlton Park

Charlton Park is an early 18th-century house with a front facade built onto an older structure. Originally called Charlton Place, it is two storeys and has an attic. The front features a stuccoed cornice and parapet, with a central pediment that hides four dormers. There are twelve windows in total, all hung sashes with glazing bars, and rectangular recesses above the first-floor windows. The main building is a wide central portion with narrower, recessed wings added in the 18th century; the north wing has one window bay and the south wing two. The central doorway has wide pilasters, a projecting cornice, a moulded architrave, and a door consisting of six fielded panels. The rear of the building, on the west side, reveals three gables belonging to the earlier structure. An early 19th-century L-wing addition is located in the north-west corner, with a higher elevation and two storeys. This wing includes a wide, curved bay of three windows on each floor, the first-floor windows being unusually tall and incorporating balconettes to provide light to a ballroom. The ballroom is said to have been added by or for George IV, who reputedly visited the house frequently between 1795 and 1820. Portions of the interior contain early 16th-century black and white wall paintings and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.