Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 16th century, with an addition from the 17th century. It is timber-framed and has colourwashed render and a plain tile roof, originally thatched. The house is two storeys high with an attic and is arranged in a T-shaped plan.

The front of the house, which represents the 17th-century cross-stroke of the ‘T’, was refaced in the early 19th century. A ground floor porch is located to the left of centre, featuring a half-glazed door. The door originally had a shallow-pitched roof, which has since been lowered. Two sash windows with 3 x 4 panes are located to the right of the porch, and a similar window is to the left. There are two further lateral windows on the first floor, and a central arched window above the porch. A 17th-century chimney stack rises from the centre of the ridge, with a square base, a central recessed panel, and a moulded top course with sawtooth sides to the flues. The left-hand side of the house is rendered to imitate ashlar. A projecting wing on the right-hand side has sashes of 3 x 4 panes to both the ground and first floors. A 3-light casement window is located in the attic. To the left of this wing, a ground floor entrance door is flanked by a 2-light and a 3-light window; two 2-light casements are above them on the first floor. A 16th-century window with diamond-section mullions is at the far left of the front. The right-hand side of the house has a sash window of 3 x 4 panes to the ground floor centre and a first-floor window at the right. A 3-light window with diamond-section mullions is located to the ground floor to the right of this. In the angle between the 16th and 17th-century ranges are two outshuts – one a lean-to and the other gabled.

The rear of the house has ground floor outshuts to the left and a projecting wing to the right. This wing contains a 3-light casement window on the ground floor and a 2-light casement on the first floor to the left.

Inside the 17th-century part of the house, there is a 2-cell baffle-entry with a winder staircase rising from the entrance lobby. The ground floor rooms have ceiling beams with ovolo-moulded corners with bar and lamb's tongue end stops, along with joists displaying runouts. One first floor room also has an ovolo-moulded beam with a runout end stop, and the walls are close-studded with reversed bracing. The rear wing has chamfered ceiling beams.