Crabbet Park

Crabbet Park is a large house, rebuilt in 1873 in a neo-Queen Anne style influenced by Norman Shaw, and now converted into flats. The house was designed by Lady Anne Blunt and her husband, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, who occupied it from the 18th century to the 20th century. It was the family home until the deaths of Wilfred and Anne Blunt in 1917 and 1922 respectively, and subsequently occupied by their daughter, Lady Wentworth. The house was the location of the Crabbet Club in the early 20th century and served as a stud farm for Arab horses, pioneered by Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

The building is L-shaped and constructed of red brick with stone window dressings, quoins, a string course, cornice, and a balustraded parapet. It is two storeys high. The north-facing entrance front has nine windows; the three central window bays project and are flanked by quoins, with a pediment above containing a round window set in a stone surround resembling a star. The windows are casements of four sections, set within moulded stone architrave surrounds. The doorway is similarly surrounded with a curved pediment over a double door of eight fielded panels, leading to a flight of eight steps with a curving stuccoed balustrade. The east, or garden, front has seven windows; the three central ones project, featuring a pediment with a large lunette window above, and a ground-floor curved bay of three windows with a balustrade above and nine semi-circular steps leading up to the bay. The building is recognized for its architectural significance in the development of 19th-century architecture and its historical associations with Wilfred Scawen Blunt and his contemporaries.