Park Farmhouse

SK 79 NW HAXEY UPPERTHORPE ROAD (south side) Westwoodside 13/123 Park Farmhouse

• II

Wrongly marked as Upperthorpe Hill on Ordnance Survey map. Farmhouse, now house. 1774, with later alterations. Brown brick, in Flemish bond to front. Concrete tile roof. T-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall north front with 2-room wing and single-room addition to rear. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plain C20 door and plain overlight beneath keyed stucco flat arch, flanked by C19 four-pane sashes in original flush wooden architraves with sills beneath similar arches. 3-course first-floor band with upper course projecting. Similar first-floor sashes in similar surrounds. Dentilled brick eaves cornice, obscured by C20 wooden eaves board. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced end stack to right; end stack to left removed. Gable ends have wrought-iron initials "W E" to left, and figures "7 4" to right. Right return, rear wing, has 12- pane sliding sash to ground floor beneath segmental arch, unequal 9-pane first-floor sashes with lintels at eaves level. Left return has unsympathetic C20 casements to front range and rear wing, 2-pane sliding sash to single-storey single-window rear addition. Rear wing has stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice, stone-coped gable with shaped kneeler, end stack. Interior: open-well staircase with ramped moulded handrail, balustrade boxed-in: not fully investigated. Empty and unoccupied at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SK7489099933