Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating back to the 15th century, with alterations around 1600. It is timber-framed and has been rendered and pargetted in panels, with a thatched roof. The main range comprises six bays and has a three-cell layout, with a small, single-storey wing added in the 18th century to the right of the front. The main range features an internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft, two eyebrow dormers, 20th-century casement windows with square leaded panes, and a reinstated six-light hall window. The first floor includes two small two-light mullioned windows, and an original three-light window with diamond mullions on the rear wall. A 20th-century boarded entrance door provides access.

Inside, the original two-bay open hall retains its smoke-blackened crown-post roof. The crown-post, braced in four ways at the head with a moulded cap and square chamfered shaft, has had its base and part of the supporting tie-beam removed for a doorway when the hall was ceiled over. Long arched braces support the tie-beam. A plank-and-muntin screen originally divided off the cross-passage, and a chimney-stack with back-to-back hearths was inserted against the upper end partition. The ceiling over the hall, which might be later than the chimney stack, has flat main cross-beams and joists with chamfer and curved stepped stops, and an unusual stair trap, now filled in. A plain cambered lintel is above the fireplace, which now has 20th-century ornamentation on its soffit.

The parlour end dates to the late 16th century. The ground floor here has unchamfered flat joists and a chamfered main beam without stops. A plain cambered fireplace lintel is present, and a blocked stair trap in the ceiling suggests the parlour is older than the hall ceiling. Arched braces support the tie-beam in the room above. There are two small reinstated diamond-mullioned windows, and a four-light late 17th/early 18th century mullion and transome window inserted into the gable end. This window has square section moulded mullions, intermediate bars, one small opening casement with ornate hinges, and square leaded panes. The medieval service rooms were replaced by a single two-bay room in the later 17th century, with widely-spaced joists resting on clamps.