Park House Farmhouse With Attached Screen Walls And Pavilions

Park House Farmhouse, with attached screen walls and pavilions, was built in the later 18th century and subsequently altered. The farmhouse is constructed from squared magnesian limestone with stone slate roofs and brick chimneys. It has a tripartite U-plan, appearing as a set-back receding centre of two storeys flanked by three-storey wings when viewed from the road. However, the architectural composition is primarily focused on the rear elevation, facing Parlington Park. This rear elevation displays a symmetrical design, with a two-storey semi-octagonal bay, finished with a parapet, projecting from the centre and slightly overlapping the wings. The wings are linked by short screen walls to small flanking pavilions, with the whole composition terminated at the ends by quadrant walls. The rear elevation features a first-floor sill band and mostly 12-pane sash windows. The semi-octagonal bay has three windows at ground floor, one in the centre of the first floor, and a blind window on each side, incorporating a blind balustrade in each side of the parapet. The wings each have one window of a similar design on the first two floors, and a Yorkshire sliding sash with glazing bars on the second floor. The building has hipped roofs, with a ridge chimney to the centre and side wall chimneys to the wings. To the left of the farmhouse, a screen wall includes a doorway. This is followed by a single-cell, open-pedimented pavilion that has a blocked doorway framed by a recessed round-headed arch with a Gibbs surround, and beyond this a quadrant wall broken by a five-bar gate. Similar features are present on the right side, though they have been altered to create a lean-to shed against the screen wall and to replace the original round-headed archway in the pavilion with a concrete lintel. The quadrant wall on this side appears intact and incorporates a stile. The front elevation has a similar fenestration to the rear, but with modifications: a doorway on the right-hand side of the central block, a blocked opening that may have been a doorway at the centre, a large canted bay at ground floor of the right wing, and windows with 4, 12, or 16 panes. The interior of the farmhouse has not been inspected. The group value of the farmhouse and its associated structures is significant.