Park Farmhouse

SP 57 NE 7/80

SWINFORD STANFORD ROAD (east side) Park Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse on the Stanford Park estate. Circa late C17 early C18, extended in C19. Flemish garden wall and Flemish stretcher bond red brick and Flemish bond extensions. Concrete tile roofs with gabled ends and brick coped eaves course. Brick axial and gable end stacks. PLAN: Long 4-room plan main range; centre and right-hand rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in axial stack; entrance- stair hall between centre and left room, which is either a C19 addition or a remodelling when the C19 rear left wing was added. C19 and C20 rear outshuts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 4 window west front. C19 3-light casements with glazing bars ground floor with segmental arches, first floor left of centre 2-lights, right- hand ground and first floor replaced with plastic casements. C19 glazed door left of centre. Platband at first floor level at centre and right. C19 rearwing and single storey outshut extended in C20. INTERIOR: Right (south) room has chamfered axial beam with runout stops and fireplace with cambered timber lintel. Left room (N) has similar axial beam and C20 chimneypiece. Centre room has boxed in axial beam and C20 chimneypiece. C18 and C19 joinery including panelled doors and open string staircase with shaped tread ends, stick balusters, moulded hand rail and column newel. C18 and C19 roof structure with principals crossed at apex and with collars and supporting large through purlins.

Listing NGR: SP5702379340