Park Head Farmhouse

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/7 (West side (off)) Park Head Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse with outbuildings adjoining. Now private house and outhouses. Early C18 with late C18 alterations. Rubble with quoins and painted ashlar dressings; concrete tiled roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. PLAN: L-plan enclosing 2 sides of farmyard, the north with adjoining shelter shed and former henhouse, the west a double range with outbuilding adjoining on south end and facing yard. EXTERIOR: garden front to north has 2-storey, 4:1 bays; at left, long one-storey outbuilding. Main range has wide blank first bay. 4-bay part: ground floor has painted stone mullions to canted bay window in third bay, with early C19 glazing bars and central horizontal sliding sash, and hipped roof; to left of this, renewed fixed light, and to right a 2-light casement, both under flat stone lintels. On first floor, projecting stone sills to 16-pane sash over bay window, with lintel at eaves, and to small C20 sash at left with painted flat stone lintel. One-bay part at right: gable of second west range and has painted ashlar surround to oculus stair light at bottom left. 4-bay range has gable on left return; roof hipped at right; second west range has hipped roof. Stone chimneys on left end gable, on ridge of second range, and in valley between 2 west ranges. Long left one-storey range blank, with small overlight to boarded door at right. Right return facing park has 3-light windows with central opening lights; flat stone lintels on ground floor, timber lintels on first floor. Rear elevation to yard has entrance in C20 extruded porch; outbuilding attached to west range has alternate block jambs to central boarded door; lugged stone jambs, flat stone lintels and sills to flanking ventilator openings. Shelter shed at east end of north range has 4 segmental stone arches, and in right return a blocked low arch possibly originally for removing manure. INTERIOR of house shows bolection-moulded stone fire surround in ground-floor front left room; c1800 6-panelled doors and some c1900 chimney pieces; straight flight closed stair in second west range.

Listing NGR: NZ2304231042