Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse with red brick infill, dating to approximately the late 15th century. It was remodelled and extended in the late 16th or early 17th century, with further alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features gabled ends. Large sandstone stacks with brick shafts are present laterally and axially.

The farmhouse has a T-shaped plan. The main range represents the remains of a late medieval house, with its original three bays appearing to have been open to the roof. The two left (south-west) bays were originally heated by an open hearth fireplace. Around the late 16th or early 17th century, a floor and axial stack were inserted into the open hall, and the putative fourth bay at the south-west end was replaced by a two-storey crosswing with a lateral stack. The right (north-east) bay was likely left open to the roof until a later date.

The left side of the farmhouse features a two-storey crosswing. The right side has a one-storey and attic, four-window range. A 19th-century plank door is located in the angle of the main range, with a small window above. A 19th-century canted bay window is present to the right, featuring a moulded cornice and a three-light window with glazing bars. Two gabled dormers have leaded arched casements with simple Y-tracery. The crosswing has a two-light first-floor casement with a horizontal glazing bar. The right-hand, north-east gable end reveals an exposed cruck truss. The rear wall has been partly rebuilt in brick, with a lean-to outshut and a cart entrance to the left of the main range and an outshut on the south-west side of the crosswing.

The interior contains three full cruck trusses (possibly with a fourth buried in the south-west wall) with small yokes at the apex, supporting a square-set ridgepiece and side purlins set on the backs of the principals. The centre and left (south-west) bays have curved wind-braces and smoke-blackening, which appears to extend into the right (north-east) bay. The trusses are now enclosed. The left bay (hall) features inserted intersecting ceiling beams with alternating hollow and roll mouldings, and blocked fireplaces. The crosswing has a box-frame construction with jowled storey-posts, tension-braces, a cambered tie-beam and curved windbraces. The ground floor rooms in the crosswing are ceiled, with a kitchen at the back and a dairy at the front, which incorporates arcaded brick shelves.