Upper Earnstrey Park

Upper Earnstrey Park is a house incorporating a 16th-century cross wing, substantial rebuilding in the 17th century, and alterations and an extension from the 18th century. The construction is a mix of early brick, rebuilt brick with a dentil course eaves to the south, and stone rubble to the north cross wing extension. The roof is covered in plain tiles. A central brick ridge stack is located in the south wing, featuring three spurred shafts of early brick topped with a 20th-century cap. A projecting stepped brick eaves-stack is present on the north cross-wing, also with 20th-century spurred shafts.

The house has a plan based on a north-south main range with crosswings added to each end; the north cross wing has an 18th-century extension to the east. The front entrance, on the east side of the main range, is accessed via a lean-to extension positioned between the projecting gables of the cross wings, with a 20th-century boarded door and casement above. To the right of the entrance is an 18th-century stone extension to the north cross wing, featuring a gable and a return wall with 20th-century casements set within brick segmental arches. To the left, the gable of the south cross wing has three-light mullioned windows on each floor, with rendered-brick mullions, surrounds, and hoodmoulds above restored leaded-lights. The return side of the south cross wing has been rebuilt with dentil eaves and a three-light casement with a brick segmental arch at ground floor.

The rear of the main range and cross wings features, to the right, a two-window range of large three-light casements; the ground-floor opening on the right has been bricked up and partially replaced with a 20th-century projecting tiled gabled brick porch. Two 17th-century windows have been bricked up, flanked by 20th-century windows, with two 20th-century dormers above. To the left is the gable end of the north cross wing, displaying a single five-light mullion and transom window to both ground and first floors and a single-mullion window to the attic floor. The window mullions and surrounds are formed of rendered brick with simple brick hoodmoulds; the hoodmould at the first floor extends into a string course across the gable. The return side of the north cross wing is obscured by 20th-century single-storey additions.

The interior of the south cross wing features an 18th-century fireplace flanked by wainscotting incorporating 17th-century panelling. The main range has square-panelled partition framing on the first floor. The north cross wing has deep, chamfered bridging beams with ogee-chamfer-stops. Both the north cross wing and main range were re-roofed in the 17th century with a double-trenched purlin roof, incorporating three twin raking-strut and collar trusses and two trusses from the 16th century in the north wing. One 16th-century truss, located to the east, is a double collar truss with close-set vertical struts partially framing a former gable end window, now encased in brickwork.

Upper Earnstrey Park, together with Crowleaseowes, Middleton, and Bitterley, represents the earliest examples of brick construction in the district.