Home (Or Park) Farmhouse

Home (or Park) Farmhouse is a house, originally built as estate cottages, dating to circa 1795 and designed by John Nash, with extensions added circa 1840 and in the later 19th century. The original construction is of coursed stone rubble with ashlar quoins; the extensions are in painted brick. The roofs are thatched with gabled and half-hipped ends, and there are brick axial and gable end stacks.

The original pair of cottages on the south side were initially designed as an L-shaped cottage ornée, featuring a verandah in the angle on the front left and integral outshuts on the right and rear. Around 1840, it was converted into a single house, and a wing was added to the rear (north). Later in the 19th century, another wing was constructed in the rear right-hand (northeast) angle. A late 19th-century outhouse block at the back was converted into a cottage annexe in the late 20th century.

The south front has an asymmetrical two-window facade. The right-hand section is a projecting wing with a half-hipped roof, featuring a first-floor two-light casement and a canted bay below with a thatched canopy and sashes. To the left, the thatched roof sweeps down over a verandah supported by thin iron posts (replacing rustic posts). Under the verandah is a three-light casement with a doorway to the left, and a hipped thatched roof dormer is in the roof above. The left-hand (west) return features a French casement with margin panes and a trellis porch. An outshut is carried around the corner to the rear with a catslide roof. A similar outshut extends around the right (east) side. The rear wings have casement windows, and two sashes are on the ground floor of the left (west) side. A former outhouse at the rear is linked to the rear wings by a wall, forming a small yard.

The interior includes joinery from circa 1840, such as panelled doors, and a relatively large open-well staircase with an open string, stick balusters, and a mahogany handrail wreathed over an ornate curtail newel. There are three early 19th-century chimney-pieces with basket grates in the chambers, and circa late 17th or early 18th century bolection moulded marble chimney-pieces in the front right-hand room, likely from Burley-on-the-Hill. A vaulted cellar is under the rear left-hand wing.

A drawing of the house in the county record office is marked as a work by Mr Nash, who was working with Repton on the house and park at Burley-on-the-Hill in 1795-6.