Worthy Park House

Worthy Park House is a medium-sized country house built around 1829 by Sir Robert Smirke for Sir Charles Ogle. It is constructed of yellow brick with Portland stone dressings and has slated roofs. The house features a central block that is five bays wide and two stories tall, with attic storeys in the end bays that give the appearance of towers. At each end, there are single-storey wings with high parapets, each consisting of three bays, which were possibly added in the late 1830s.

The south garden front has slightly projecting end bays on the central block. The central three bays have three steps leading up to them, with seated lions at each end. The three central windows are tall with arched heads made of Portland stone, connected by a string at the impost level. The end bays have similar openings but with rubbed brick arches. The windows are 15-pane, three-part sashes, with blank arch panels below. Each wing has similar openings, featuring blank arch panels to the left and fanlights to the right, and the wings are topped with tall balustraded parapets.

The main block has a stone string at the first floor and five 12-pane sashes with rubbed brick arches. Above, there is a cornice with a low parapet on the central bays and six-pane sashes in the attics, also with a cornice and short parapet above. The north entrance front features a stone porte-cochere with four fluted Ionic columns at the center. The entrance has double doors and large 12-pane sashes, while the wings have the same arched windows.

Inside, behind the porch, there is a hall with a strict classical marble fireplace. Directly ahead is a staircase with a top-lit full height, fluted cast-iron balustrades decorated with foliage, and a moulded mahogany handrail. The staircase area has a modillioned cornice below the landing and on the ceiling. Three main rooms on the garden front were damaged by fire in 1970 but have been restored. The roof behind the staircase is well-preserved, featuring a five-panel ceiling with strips of rosettes between, a small-scale cornice, and an acanthus frieze, with an austere central rosette. There is also a large mid-19th century French Empire mirror and a massive classical fireplace with a brass inlaid hob grate. All doors are made of mahogany with six panels and only roll moulding between them.