Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a house that likely dates from the 14th or 15th century, with later alterations and an early 20th-century rear wing. It features a timber-framed structure that is rough rendered, with painted brick on the ground floor. The roof is red plain tiles, hipped with gablets, and there are red brick chimney stacks on both sides. The brick facing on the ground floor suggests that the house was originally jettied.

The building has two storeys, with four small paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor and three tripartite small paned sliding sash windows on the ground floor, each with keystones above the arches. An off-centre porch has a flat head supported by Ionic columns, and there is a fluted surround to the door, topped by ornate tracery in the semi-circular light above.

Although much of the timber frame is covered by 20th-century decorations, some blocked mullion windows are still visible, along with ceiling beams, large bridging joists, and a very large square section arched brace that likely supports a crown post. Part of the roof, visible during the re-survey, is of the crown post type, featuring large unsooted timbers and collars for each pair of rafters. A painted panel from a first-floor room has been removed to Colchester Museum, and other wall paintings are now carefully covered with board and paper. The room also contains two arched doorways.