Batsford Park

Batsford Park is a manor house built between 1888 and 1892 by Sir Ernest George and Peto for Lord Redesdale. The building features an ashlar exterior with a concrete tile roof, limestone gable coping, and a stack. It has a main body with two wings that project forward on the right and left sides. A stone polygonal stair turret is located on the left wall, and there is a two-storey central gabled porch. The service wing is set back from the facade on the left. Designed in the Cotswold Elizabethan style, the main body is three storeys high, while the wings also have three storeys and an attic. The structure includes buttresses on the main body and wings, with a window arrangement of 1:8:2. All windows are stone ovolo-moulded casements. The third-floor windows on the main body and the left wall of the right wing are all three-light windows with stilted heads. The hall on the left side of the main body is lit by tall two-light mullioned and transomed windows with stilted heads, and similar lights are found in the left wall of the right wing. Other windows vary in size, with two, three, and four-light configurations featuring mullions and transoms. There are string courses above and below the third-floor windows of the main body, as well as another above the tall windows in the central hall. Decorative rainwater heads are dated 1889. The gabled central porch has a lion finial at the apex and eroded finials at the eaves. A large heraldic shield is positioned above the panelled round-headed porch door, which is surrounded by a moulded frame decorated with a Tudor Rose. The eaves feature saddleback coping and hollow pointed finials. Numerous multi-angular stacks with moulded caps and skirtings are present, along with a bell under an ogee arched metal canopy attached to the axial stack on the left wing of the main body. The four-storey service wing to the left is styled similarly to the main body and is accompanied by one and two-storey outbuildings on the far left.

Inside, there is a large central hall that is open to the first floor, featuring a stone balustrade for the stairs and gallery, as well as heraldic glass in the windows. The ballroom is located in the right wing and includes enclosed wooden corner stairs and ornate stone fireplaces in all major rooms. King Edward VII stayed here.