Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to around the late 16th century. It was extended around the mid 17th century and altered around the 18th century. The building is timber-framed with plastered panels, with extensions in coursed stone rubble and a timber-framed front wall rebuilt in stone. A stone gable end stack and a stone lateral stack at the rear (north) with a brick shaft are also present.

The house has a 4-bay plan. Two bays of the original timber-framed house remain on the northeast side, likely originally extended a further bay to the northeast. The central bay of the formerly 3-bay house now contains a lobby entrance with a newel staircase, a small unheated room to the right, and a larger unheated room behind; the left bay has a lateral stack at the back. Around the mid 17th century, a 2-room plan extension was built to the southwest, with the left-hand room heated from a gable-end fireplace and the right-hand room now containing the main staircase. The front wall of the original timber-framed range was rebuilt in stone, probably in the 18th century.

The front (southeast) elevation has two storeys and an attic. It features 20th-century wooden 2 and 3-light casement windows and a doorway on the right with a glazed plank door. A stone stringcourse runs at first floor level of the right-hand two bays. Timber framing is exposed at the northeast gable end and at the rear, with square plastered panels. The rear (northwest) elevation has a central stone lateral stack with set-offs and a tall brick shaft. A doorway to the right has a plank door in the stone range, with eaves raised in painted brick.

Inside the original range, exposed timber framing includes jowled storey-posts. The roof is of 2 bays with collar and tie-beam trusses, a central closed truss, end trusses with queen-posts, and replaced purlins and common-rafters. The left room has a chamfered cross-beam, a rebuilt fireplace, and a cupboard to one side with a 3-plank door. The rear right (north) room has unchamfered exposed joists. The entrance lobby has a 17th-century newel staircase with a heavy string, moulded handrail, widely spaced splat balusters, and chamfered newels with ball finials. Re-used moulded ceiling beams are found in the first-floor chambers. The 17th-century extension to the southwest has a framed partition, chamfered beams, a large gable-end fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, a renewed bressumer, and ovens. The roof was replaced, except for the centre truss.