Rousdon including former stables adjoining west and forecourt area wall and gate piers to north

Country house, formerly a school and now apartments, dating from 1874 and designed by Sir Ernest George and T.Vaughan in a 16th-century Franco-Flemish style. It was built for Sir Henry W. Peek MP of Peek Frean Biscuits and is situated within landscaped grounds overlooking the sea. The house is constructed of flint rubble with freestone dressings, with some ornamental timber framing, a plain tile roof, and red brick dressings. Tall, panelled red brick chimney stacks are present. The north entrance front features a large timber-framed gable supported on a two-bay arcade forming a porte-cochère. To the left is a great hall with a bay window incorporating mullions and transoms. Further to the left is a tower with a pyramidal roof. To the right of the entrance is a sunken court with ramps on three sides, and tile-hung dormer windows in the roof. The south garden front is asymmetrical with a basement and two storeys above. It contains three-bay windows rising to tile-hung and gabled dormers. To the right is an octagonal turret, and to the left are two tile-hung gables with timber framing below, overhanging stone walls of the ground floor. Alongside this is a single-storey block with a hipped roof and a central lantern with an ogee roof. Attached to the west are the former stables, built around a courtyard, with timber-framed gables, approached by an arched carriageway. This is surmounted by a tower and a tile-hung gable over the carrillon. Also included is a forecourt area wall to the north of the house, constructed from low flint rubble with moulded stone coping. This incorporates four squat ashlar gate piers with pyramidal and gabled caps and ramped buttresses. The interior of the great hall features an arch-braced roof, a massive stone fireplace, and stained glass. A staircase is lined with marble, while corridors have mosaic floors figured with depictions of wild animals.