Fawley Court (Divine Mercy College)

The building is a school, formerly a mansion house, constructed in 1684, reputedly by Sir Christopher Wren, for William Freeman. It was externally refurbished and extended to the northwest in 1884 for the Mackenzie family. The house is built of red brick with tuck pointing and ashlar dressings, featuring a moulded wooden eaves cornice with carved scroll modillions and a later rendered parapet. The roof is hipped slate, with brick chimneys having moulded stone cornices and strings.

The house follows an H-plan layout, with a northwest front of nine bays and other fronts of seven bays. It has a moulded stone plinth, a stone first-floor band course, and quoins. The windows are 19th-century sash windows without glazing bars, set in plain stone surrounds with staff mouldings. Flat-roofed dormers, housing sash windows, are present. The northwest front is recessed in the centre for five bays, creating a single-storey entrance loggia with a late 18th-to-early 19th-century Ionic stone colonnade, entablature, and balustrade. A central first-floor window has a shouldered architrave surround, and the central door has a stone doorcase with Roman Doric pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, cornice, and a central lion's-head keyblock. A matching-style balustraded quadrant and pavilion were added in 1884 to the left. The north and south fronts each have a slight central projection of three bays with pediments. The south pediment features a blind wreathed oeil-de-boeuf window, while the north pediment contains a similar blind window with a keyed architrave surround.

The saloon contains a very fine plaster ceiling dated 1690, featuring a central oval with a vine-leaf trail and thyrsi, surrounded by naturalistic foliage scrolls depicting birds and animals in high relief. Late 18th-century doorcases with scroll friezes, one with a pediment, and a white marble fireplace by J.F. Moore in Athenian style, decorated with relief depictions of lionesses, urns and paterae on the frieze, are also present. The library features a good plaster ceiling by James Wyatt, circa 1770-71, painted illusionistic relief panels by Anne Seymour Damer in the frieze, and a recess with four Ionic scagliola columns added in 1804. Inlaid doors were also created by Mrs. Damer. A further ceiling by Wyatt is found in the drawing room. Several other rooms retain late 18th-to-early 19th-century ceilings and marble fireplaces, including one with an acanthus frieze, a coved ceiling, and a painted wooden fireplace with gilt urns and husk garlands. The main staircase, dating from circa 1730, has two turned balusters per tread, an open string, and a wide flat handrail. A backstairs, also dating from the 18th century, features turned balusters. Vaulted cellars exist, with part featuring wide flat ribs to a central cylindrical pier, and another section extending under the south terrace. The remainder of the interior has seen alterations, particularly in the late 19th century, and suffered damage from a fire in 1976.