Stodham Park

Stodham Park is a country house built in 1827 for John Cornthwaite Hector, a banker from Petersfield. The house is constructed of stuccoed brick and features twin-span slate hipped roofs with deep eaves and rendered brick axial stacks. It is designed in the Regency style and has a rectangular plan with a symmetrical five-bay front. The central entrance leads to an axial hall, with principal rooms on the right that open onto a verandah overlooking the garden, and secondary rooms, a staircase, and a service wing on the left. The interior has been altered, with the center room on the garden front now serving as the entrance hall.

The exterior is three storeys high, with a symmetrical five-bay front that has restored 12-pane sash windows, which are taller on the ground floor. The central entrance features paired Tuscan columns supporting a large entablature, with glazed double doors. The right-hand return has a three-bay garden front with a colonnade verandah, also supported by paired Tuscan columns and an entablature. The garden front has 12-pane sashes, two of which on the ground floor have been converted to French casements, with the central window flanked by side-lights. The rear of the house includes a large later 19th-century bay on the ground floor and a two-storey service wing on the left with hipped roofs, along with a 20th-century conservatory behind the service wing.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains intact, including panelled doors, window shutters, and some chimneypieces. The original staircase features stick balusters, column newels, and a mahogany handrail, alongside a later 19th-century staircase with a cast-iron balustrade and moulded handrail. Some of the original chimneypieces have been replaced with later marble Neo-classical designs.