Ockham Park House

Ockham Park House is a country house originally built around 1638 for the Weston Family. It was altered in 1728-1729 by Nicholas Hawksmoor for the first Lord King and extended in approximately 1830 in Italianate style for the seventh Lord King. The majority of the house was destroyed by fire in 1948 and it was stripped and partially restored in the 1970s. The building is constructed of brown and red brick with hipped plain-tiled roofs that are obscured by parapets. It is a square block with seven bays on each side and a lower extension to the left. The house has two storeys and an attic above a basement storey, featuring a central brick pavilion on the roof.

The entrance front displays moulded brick plat bands over the basement, ground, and first floors, as well as at the top of the parapet, with end pilaster piers. There are two three-bay ranges on either side of a central shallow single bay recess. In the attic storey, there is one Venetian window on either side of the centre, with two sections of parapet raised above. The house has 20th-century fenestration, with all windows set under gauged brick heads, including 18-light glazing bar sash windows on the main floor and a round arched fixed casement at the centre of the first floor. A former door at the centre, now blocked, is also located under a gauged brick head.

The pavilion on the roof is square, with brick pilaster piers at the corners beneath a brick cornice. It features an octagonal lantern above, covered in lead and topped with an ogee roof and sphere finial. The pavilion has four brick walls with arched openings placed diagonally from the corners, and square brick stacks at the ends. The right-hand return front has seven bays with paired and end pilaster piers at the centre. There is a two-storey single bay extension at the left end, which also has end pilaster piers and a large splay-sided 20th-century brick recess at the centre of the left-hand return front under a cement lintel. The interior has been gutted and partially restored, and it was empty at the time of the resurvey.