Mabledon Park

Mabledon Park is a Tudor-revival country house originally built in 1804 for James Burton by T. F. Parkinson, with later extensions by Burton's son Decimus for John Deacon between 1829 and 1831. The house underwent further alterations in 1870, and some of the stone used is said to have come from the ruins of Penshurst Place. Constructed of ironstone ashlar with a slate roof, the building stands two storeys high and features an embattled design. The north-west wing, added by Burton, creates an 'L' shaped plan.

On the east front, there is a nine-window range with a square octagonal tower at the south end and a square entrance projection to the right. The entrance features a three-centred recessed pointed arch with double doors and an overlight. At the north end of the front, there is a square tower that rises three storeys and includes an oriel window on the first floor. The west front is also L-shaped, featuring a two-storey canted bay and an octagonal turret to the left, with a small entrance in the angle of the L. The right-hand wing has a square bay flanked by a round turret. The west front includes a central two-storey canted bay, and the windows throughout the house are a mixture of square-headed and pointed arch styles, all with dripstones above. The Tudor style brick chimneys, which vary in configuration, include some that date from the 1870 alterations.

Inside, the octagonal south room, now a chapel, boasts a panelled and decorated neo-classical ceiling, along with a doorhood in a similar style featuring an inset panel with antique relief painting. The south drawing room has two similar door hoods, while the library features a ribbed neo-Jacobean ceiling and a wood panelled and vaulted ceiling in the window bay. The west drawing room contains two Gothick revival doorcases. This house is significant as the childhood home of Decimus Burton.