Doe Park

Doe Park is a country house dating from around 1700, with a later addition. It is constructed from dressed yellow sandstone, featuring grey sandstone dressings, and has a stone-flagged roof with stone chimney stacks. The main block is tall and has a low addition to the right.

The symmetrical garden front has two storeys plus a basement and consists of five bays, with the central bay projecting forward. The basement features flush quoins, while the central bay and ends have raised-and-chamfered quoins above a string course. All openings are framed with architraves. A concave-plan perron stair with eight steps, supported on segmental arches, leads to the central doorway, which has five-panel double doors and a three-pane overlight, along with a pulvinated frieze and cornice. To the left of the stair, there are two side-hung nine-pane casements with thick glazing bars; to the right is a 20th-century solid gabled porch and a replaced six-pane sash. Above the string course, there are replaced twelve-pane sashes. The eaves cornice and solid panelled parapet break forward over the central bay, and the steeply-pitched roof has coped gables, with stepped left end and ridge stacks, and a corniced right end stack.

The one-storey addition features a four-pane sash, a steeply-pitched roof, and a right end stack. The narrow returns of the main block have two-pane sashes, some of which are blocked, set in projecting flat-faced surrounds.

The six-bay rear has raised-and-chamfered quoins, with all openings framed in architraves. The basement has altered openings, including a solid gabled 20th-century porch in bay five that conceals a centre-hinged two-leaf, three-panel door. Above this, there are eight-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, several of which are fixed and one is blocked. The eaves have been raised, possibly replacing a parapet, and the roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers.

The interior is plain, featuring several three-panel doors and a large square stone fireplace in the basement. A dogleg staircase at the rear has a closed, moulded string, thin turned balusters, and a moulded grip handrail. The roof structure includes four adzed principal-rafter trusses with pegged collars, two rows of trenched purlins, and supplementary principals for the rear span.