Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1997. House. 7 related planning applications.

Park House

WRENN ID
strange-window-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1997
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Park House is a house, now divided into separate units, dating to the 17th century with additions from the 1840s and 20th-century alterations. It was extended for Robert Needham Philips. The house is timber-framed with plastered infill on an ashlar plinth, and brick with ashlar dressings, topped by a tile roof with brick stacks having caps to diagonal shafts.

The garden front is two storeys with an attic, featuring a six-window range. The left end is timber-framed with a gable; the right end has a projecting gable with a canted bay window, a hipped gable to its right, and an octagonal pavilion with a pyramidal roof and a tall wrought-iron finial and enriched bargeboards. A French window is located at the left end, and two French windows are to the left of the centre. Ground floor windows are mostly ovolo-moulded cross-mullioned. The bay window has transomed lights. The first floor features a 1:3:1-light canted oriel to the left end, with brackets, a hipped roof, and tracery heads to decorative glazing, as well as two gabled dormers to the left of the centre. The pavilion has 2-light windows. A large stack is in the roof slope to the right of the left end gable, with clustered diagonal shafts.

The left end exhibits close-studding to the ground floor, square framing above, and decorative framing to the gable. The left return has similar framing. A gabled wing to the left has a return entrance with a lean-to canopy over the door, disguised as close studding. It includes a six-light ground floor window with a narrow canopy, and an oriel to the first floor, similar to the garden front but lacking decorative glazing, with a 2-light window to the gable. To the right of this is a 2-light window, with a likely blocked window above, and a 20th-century gabled roof dormer. A three-window brick range to the left has windows with chamfered openings to 2-light small-paned casements, a cross-axial stack, and clustered shafts to the end stack.

The entrance front, facing the street, has a gabled wing with decorative bargeboards to the left of the centre, a porch with buttresses, a cornice, and a coped gable with a panel; a Tudor arch and inner door; and a 3-light window above. To the left, a half-hipped gable has a ground-floor projection with a parapet over two cross-mullioned windows and a 3-light window to the first floor. To the right is a 20th-century entrance and a large stair window. A wing to the right end has a later range to the inner return with applied timber framing and a gable to the right end.

Internally, the house is recorded as having an oak staircase and panelling.

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