Games Pavilion In Gardens At Parkfield

The Games Pavilion in the gardens at Parkfield is a games pavilion built around 1870-1880. It features a timber frame with patterned glazed ceramic tile infill, rendered infill at the rear, and a base made of brick and ashlar. The pavilion is single-storey and has an octagonal plan with gabled side wings. The framing on the rear and wings consists of three irregularly-sized panels that extend from the sill to the wall-plate. A shaped ceramic tiled frieze runs beneath the eaves, and the octagonal roof rises to a central moulded finial. Each slope of the roof has a gablet with tiled infill and a fleur-de-lys finial.

The front elevation faces north and features a central round-headed archway with cusped and moulded decoration. Beyond this archway is a lead-roofed, gabled porch supported by moulded timber uprights and adorned with pierced moulded bargeboards. On either side of the gabled entrance are openings with flat arches and moulded arch-braces. The gabled side wings, which housed former changing and store rooms, each have a narrow round-headed light on the front elevation. The moulded arches of these wings rest on imposts that extend as strings to the side gable end elevations, where they terminate at the base of the jambs of a two-light chamfered mullioned window located beneath the eaves. Both windows in each wing are made of stained glass, and the gable ends feature pierced moulded bargeboards and wrought-iron ridge decoration topped with tall moulded finials.

Inside, the roof has a moulded central king-post with a pendant from which eight tie-beams radiate to the wall-plate. There is a moulded cornice above the tiled frieze, and ceramic tiled panels are present throughout the interior. The three rear walls display tiled panels illustrating the games of archery, badminton, and croquet, beneath which runs a wooden bench with a tiled frieze below. Panelled doors lead to the changing and store rooms on either side, and the floor is patterned with tiles.