Hoe Place

Hoe Place is a house that has been converted into a school. It was originally built in the early 18th century by James Zouch, with external remodelling around 1810. The building is rendered and features hipped slate roofs and rendered stacks. It has a half H shape plan with seven bays on the front, where the three central bays are recessed. The house is two storeys high with a mezzanine, showcasing a mix of window styles: first-floor casements and ground-floor glazing bar sash windows. There is an angle bay window on the right side of the ground floor, topped with a lead pent roof. The central entrance has double glazed doors set within a surround of fluted Doric half columns, which are part of a colonnade made up of four Ionic columns across the front.

On the garden side, the building also has seven bays, with the central three projecting in a domed bow. There is a single-storey curved colonnade with a glazed pent roof around the central bays, and a single-storey circular porch in front of arched doors in a set-back bay to the left, although the capitals of the columns are now missing. Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase featuring twisted balusters, and wall painting attributed to Verrio, which is now mostly obscured by varnish. There is also further ceiling painting based on a Verrio design in a ground floor room.