Park House

Park House is a square house built in 1792, featuring two storeys and attics. It is constructed of ashlar stone with stone galleting and has a mansarded slate roof. The building has a cornice and a parapet with balustraded panels in front of the dormer windows, which include four pedimented dormers. The long and short stone quoins add to its architectural detail. There are five sash windows on three fronts, with intact glazing bars only on the first floor. The west front features a central curved bay with three first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows. Between these windows is a bulging semi-circular porch that projects beyond the bay, supported by engaged Doric columns and a triglyph frieze, though it has a modern door. Five stone steps lead up to the street. The south front has a two-storey addition of lower elevation, which includes three sashes, with two round-headed sashes on the ground floor and a stringcourse.

Inside, the house boasts a fine circular staircase with scrolled tread ends and a plain column newel post, along with good moulded cornices and 18th-century Adamesque fireplaces. From 1875 to 1893, Park House was occupied by Edmund Lew Lushington, a Greek scholar and Egyptologist who married Tennyson's sister, Cecilia. The house is mentioned in the Prologue of Tennyson's "The Princess," and the poet frequently stayed there, along with other notable figures of the time.