Swanmore Park House

Swanmore Park House is a country house built between 1878 and 1882 by Alfred Waterhouse for Charles Myers. It was later converted into flats in the mid-20th century. The house is constructed of red brick with coloured concrete dressings, and has a clay tile roof with gabled ends and pierced ridge tiles. Brick axial stacks feature, with brick shafts and corbelled brick tops.

The house is arranged around a central well, with the primary rooms facing west, south, and east. Service rooms originally occupied the north side, which was later truncated. In the late 19th century, Alfred Waterhouse added a billiard room wing to the southwest, and in the mid-20th century the entire house was converted into six flats.

The architectural style is High Victorian Gothic. The exterior is asymmetrical with gabled elevations, displaying decorative brickwork including blind arcading in the gables, brick corbelling, a deep frieze of raised brick diaperwork between the ground and first floors, and mullion-transom windows with cambered heads. The west front has six bays, with a gabled wing to the left featuring a canted and crenellated two-story bay window. The east front includes a projecting gabled bay, an integral lean-to porch, and a buttress with a round arch doorway (now a window), and an armorial panel above. The south garden front has a slightly advanced, gabled bay on the right and a canted bay of centre with a steeply pitched hipped roof and an ornate wrought-iron weathervane. A single-story billiard room wing is situated on the left with a gable on its east front and a large lantern on the roof. The rear (north) elevation has a projecting gable on the right and a truncated wing. A small inner courtyard is partly covered by a two-bay timber wagon roof.

Internally, a hall and staircase were removed during the conversion to flats, but original rooms remain. These include the dining room with a ribbed, moulded plaster ceiling and the neoclassical drawing room. Several original fireplaces survive, and stained glass is present in the entrance porch.