Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a mid-to-late 18th-century farmhouse with later 18th- and early 19th-century additions to the rear. Constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with scored joints and ashlar dressings, it has a concrete tile roof. The building is L-shaped, originally incorporating a double-depth section with a two-room central entrance hall facing west, and a two-room extension to the rear left, with an infill within the angle. It is two storeys high and five bays wide, with a symmetrical façade where the central bay projects slightly. A three-course brick plinth band, largely rendered, runs along the front. A flight of three stone steps leads to the entrance, which features a late 18th-century doorcase with fluted pilasters supporting foliate capitals, an entablature with a composition ornament (an urn and festoons at the centre, with figures on either side), a dentilled cornice, and a moulded pediment containing festoons. The door is a six-fielded-panel design, with a radial-glazed overlight. The ground floor has twelve-pane sashes in recessed wooden architraves, with projecting sills and rubbed-brick flat arches topped with raised keystones; the ground-floor keystones also support a painted three-course brick band on the first floor. A deep, modillion eaves cornice runs along the top. The roof is swept and hipped, with a pair of stacks behind the ridge. The left return features an early 19th-century flat-roofed, ground-floor bow window with two unequal fifteen-pane sashes in reveals with sills and a stucco flat arch below a coped parapet. Further features include a tripartite sash with glazing bars, a small sash in a blocked former entrance, and two twelve-pane first-floor sashes. The later section to the left has a 20th-century half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight, a pilastered doorcase, a 19th-century twelve-pane sash, and a blind first-floor panel. Internal features include a moulded dado rail and cornice to the entrance hall; arches to the stairhall with panelled pilasters, dentilled capitals, archivolt, and a panelled soffit; a similar arch to the upper hall; a good open-well staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, a moulded column newel, and carved scrolled brackets. There is a dentilled cornice, moulded skirting, and a good composition chimney-piece to the ground floor right, with fluted pilasters, a fluted frieze with paterae and urns, and festoons. A moulded cornice and fielded-panel dado are present on the ground floor left, as well as a moulded cornice and chimney-piece flanking fielded-panel cupboard doors with H-hinges to a study which is located on the rear right. The main first-floor bedrooms have moulded cornices and chimney-pieces, including one on the right with composition ornament. Panelled window shutters and doors in architraves and panelled reveals are also observed. Elliptical-arched brick vaulted cellars are located at the rear.