Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 19th and 20th century additions. It is timber framed and has colourwashed render and brick facing, with a plaintile and pantile roof. The house is two storeys high, with a single storey and attic, and arranged in an L-shape.

The road front has a projecting 19th-century wing on the right, with a remainder of the 17th-century wing to its left, and a lower 16th-century wing further to the left. The 16th-century wing has two 3-light ground floor casements with cambered heads set within 19th-century walling and two 2-light gabled dormer windows to the attic. A single-storey addition is located slightly to the left, with a doorway to the right and a cambered-headed window to the left. The 17th-century portion on the right is largely concealed by the 19th-century additions, including a canted porch in the re-entrant angle which has a 6-panel door, the lower four panels being raised and fielded, and the upper two glazed. The projecting 19th-century wing has blank ground floor walling to its gable end and a 3 x 4 pane sash window with a Tudor hood mould to the first floor. The left hand flank of this wing has a glazed door to the right, a 3 x 4 pane sash window to the left, and a blank window and a 3 x 4 pane sash window to the first floor.

A substantial chimney stack rises from the 17th-century portion. It has a rectangular base from which broaches rise to two octagonal bases with circular shafts. These are decorated with fleurs de lys and lily ornamentation to the moulded brick of their lower bodies, and the caps appear to have been renewed. This chimney stack is similar to that at Catt’s Hill Farm, Clopton.

The right hand side of the house features a two-storey, flat-roofed projection to the left of centre. To the left of this is a bay window with a hipped roof and three central lights and one on the left, both windows having 4-centered heads to the lights. A 3-light ground floor window is situated to the left of the bay window. On the first floor, there is a 3 x 4 pane sash window to the right and a six-pane sash window to the left, with half-panes at the extremes. To the right of the 20th-century addition is a lean-to with glazed walling holding six lights and a pantile roof.