Ston Easton Park

Ston Easton Park is a country house set in an emparked landscape, now functioning as a hotel. It was built around 1769 for John Hippisley-Coxe, incorporating some fragments of a 17th-century foundation. The exterior is rendered to resemble ashlar, with freestone dressings, rusticated ashlar quoins, and a continuous dentil cornice across the facade. The building features secondary cornices on the units, parapets with copings that conceal the roofs, outer wings with low pyramidal slate roofs, and a central block adorned with rococo urns.

The facade is a plain symmetrical Georgian design in the style of William Kent, while the interior showcases a Palladian style influenced by Burlington. The main central unit has two storeys and an attic storey, arranged in a 2:3:2 bay configuration, with shallow projecting wings on either side. There are two-storey single bay wings connecting the central unit to slightly projecting two-storey single bay end pavilions. The windows are primarily twelve-pane sash types in moulded architraves, with shallow six-pane sash windows in the attic storey. Most openings have cornices above, except for the first floor of the central three bays and the first floor of the pavilions, which feature segmental and triangular pediments.

The central entrance has an engaged Tuscan Doric portico with rosettes, leading to a semi-circular head door opening in a rusticated surround with an emphasized key, paired half-glazed doors, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. At the center of the parapet, there is a garlanded achievement of the Hippisley-Coxe arms in relief. The rear elevation is much plainer in style.

Inside, the house is richly decorated with ornamental plasterwork, especially in the reception rooms. Notable features include doors, doorcases, fireplaces, overmantels, kitchen elements, an ante room to the library adorned with 18th-century engravings, and a bathroom with an octagonal plunge bath located on the ground floor of the east pavilion.