Hotham Park House

Hotham Park House, originally known as Chapel House, was built in 1793 by Sir Richard Hotham, the founder of Bognor, as his residence. The house was named after a chapel that served as a Chapel of Ease until St John's Chapel was constructed in 1882; the original chapel was demolished later in the century. After this, the house was referred to as Bersted Lodge and then Hotham Lodge.

The building has two storeys and a semi-basement, featuring ten windows and a stuccoed exterior with a cornice and parapet. It has two large bays with three windows each on both floors, flanked by one window on the outer side and two between. The ground floor bays are connected by an arcaded verandah raised above ground level, with an iron railing between the columns and approached at each end by a curved flight of steps with a handrail, although the handrail on the south flight is broken. Above the verandah is an iron balcony with a hood supported by trellis columns, and there is a moulded frieze and dentilled cornice between the verandah and the balcony.

On the north side of the north bay, there is a similar arcaded verandah accessed by a curved flight of steps from the north front, with an iron balcony above but no hood. To the south of the south bay, there is a terrace with an iron railing, which previously had a ground floor room that extended out and featured a frieze, cornice, and balcony without a hood above, along with one large window with a semi-circular head. The south front includes a curved bay with three windows.

At the north-west corner of the house, there is a tower composed of four sections, each set back within the lower section. The top section features clock faces on the north and south sides and a cupola containing a bell, supported by eight columns, with a weather vane on top. The interior includes moulded cornices on the ceilings and architraves on the doors, as well as mantelpieces supported by columns or decorated in a Grecian style.