Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 15th or 16th century, with additions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber-framed, with colourwashed render, a Red Flemish bond brick skin, and a plain tile roof. The building has a two-storey hall plan, featuring an inserted first floor.

The entrance front has a 19th-century addition on the right, notable for its steeper roof pitch. The original left-hand portion, from the 17th century, features brick walling to the ground floor and 20th-century windows. A single-storey, gabled porch projects to the right of centre, constructed of 20th-century brick with a pointed-arched gable and a cambered-headed, chamfered entrance arch, housing a 4-panel 20th-century door. To the right of the porch is a three-light casement, and to the left are two similar windows, all metal framed. A similar three-light window is located to the far right. The first floor has rendered walls, and above the porch is a three-light casement, with similar windows on either side. Further two-light casements are found to the far left and right. A three-flue axial stack rises from the ridge at the left of centre, and a lean-to outshut extends from the right-hand end of the ground floor, with a three-light, a two-light, and a single-light casement to the first floor. The left-hand gable end features a 19th-century canted bay window to the ground floor and a two-light casement to the first floor.

The rear elevation is stuccoed and grooved to imitate ashlar blocks, with a projecting lean-to outshut on the left and a projecting plinth elsewhere. A central three-light window has a wedge-lintel and projecting keystone and may have previously been a doorway. To the right of this is a two-light casement, and to the first floor are three two-light casements.

Inside, one ground floor room has a chamfered ceiling beam supported on an under-beam, also chamfered, connected to wall posts by corner arch braces which appear to be a later addition. A large chimney stack, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, has a chamfered bressumer and some renewed brickwork. A 19th-century staircase hall includes a staircase with turned balusters and a moulded, ramped handrail. Another ground floor room has a chamfered ceiling beam. The first floor features trusses with cambered tie beams and arched braces, including a possible spere truss and one with a long central mortice channel, suggesting the presence of arched braces forming a pointed arch. The roof timbers were replaced in the 18th or 19th century.