Compton House

Compton House is a large house, built in 1893 by Fairfax B. Wade, commissioned by the 5th Marquis of Northampton. It is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings, plain-tile roofs, and brick internal stacks. The building follows an "H" shaped plan and is designed in a Jacobean style.

The front facade has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window range. The central bay features a prominent five-light window with a four-centred stone mullion and transom. Arched heads sit above the individual lights, with small shields in the spandrels and a continuous stone string course. A door is located to the left, approached by two steps, featuring a panelled, part-glazed door within a moulded stone surround and an ogee moulding above with a shield. Moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds are present on the first floor. Similar windows are found elsewhere on the ground and first floors, with a four-light window to the ground floor of the right wing and a three-light window to the first floor. A wave-moulded stone plinth runs along the base, and diaper patterning of flared headers is incorporated into the brickwork, featuring "N"s in the central bay. Raised bands of alternating brick and stone simulate quoins on the wings. A moulded stone string course runs across the building. The central bay has a taller gable with a horizontal keyed oval window. Stone bands are visible on the gables, which are stone-coped with kneelers and decorative stone finials.

The front to the left has a three-bay central gabled stone porch with a panelled door, moulded stone surround, a basket-arched head, blank shields in the spandrels, and a hood mould. A shaped gable above the porch bears the date 1893. The porch is flanked by two-storey seated stone bay windows with moulded stone mullion and transom windows to the ground floor and stone mullion windows to the first floor, topped with shaped parapets. Gables are present over the bay windows, featuring circular windows with stone surrounds and hood moulds. The garden front mirrors the forecourt front, although the wings have a shallower projection on that side. A two-storey seated stone bay window is centrally positioned. The left wing has a door to the right of a ground-floor window, with a panelled, part-glazed door, stone surround and hood mould, approached by three steps. A single-storey service wing is located on the opposite side of the main entrance.

The interior includes a hall with an original chimneypiece and an open-well staircase. Original building plans are in the possession of the owners.