Park House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. A Post-medieval House. 1 related planning application.

Park House

WRENN ID
drifting-turret-crag
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1954
Type
House
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Park House, Paythorne, BB7 4LS
OS grid reference
SD 810 497
Coordinates
53.94306, -2.29087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park House is a 17th-century house constructed of rubble, primarily limestone, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The building has two storeys. The windows feature an inner hollow chamfer and an outer chamfer. To the left of the two-storey gabled porch, there is a nine-light window with two king mullions and a hood. On the first floor, there are two three-light windows with a continuous hood. To the right of the porch, there is a five-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor, both with hoods. The first-floor porch window consists of four stepped lights with a hood. The outer porch doorway is moulded with an elliptical head and moulded imposts. Inside, the outer studded plank door has a chamfered surround with a Tudor-arched head, and indecipherable symbols are punched onto the lintel. The house features chimneys on the gables and to the right of the porch.

Inside, the right-hand front room has a chamfered fireplace with a segmental head and a bread oven. The main ceiling joists are chamfered with stepped stops. On the first floor, there are two roof trusses, with the right-hand (east) one mostly exposed. These trusses are arch-braced with short king posts rising from collars and have scribed mouldings, as do the exposed purlins.

Local climate

Park House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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