Formerly Ashburton House built in 1832 by Decimus Burton as a seaside villa for Alexander Burton, 1st Baron Ashburton. The gardens would originally have stretched all the way down to the sea where there was little more than a track along the bay. In 1870, a naval college was established at Bay House and in 1892 Col. Francis Sloane-Stanley took over the house. In 1943 the house was sold to Gosport Borough Council and the 17 acres of parkland were donated to the people of the borough becoming Stanley Park. After WW2 the house became Gosport County Grammar School renamed Bay House School in 1972.
