Park House

PALGRAVE LION ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 07 NE 1/76 Park House (formerly 29.7.55 listed as St. John's)

GV II

Large house, now a school. C17 origins. Extended and altered in early C19 for Harrison farmily. Yellow brick front block. Some timber frame to earlier rear sections, largely cased in whitewashed brick and roughcast. Shallow hipped slate roof to front, steeper glazed pantiled roofs to rear. Early C19 block has parallel early range to rear with a further early wing behind at right angles to form a T on plan. 2 storeys with attics in rear wings. 5 bay facade, 2:1:2 breaking forward slightly to centre. Offset plinth. Central entrance: a glazed door with a traceried rectangular fanlight, raised fielded fluted metopes and rosettes on mutules, above porch a balcony with panelled deep reveal. Semi-circular tetrastyle Roman Doric portico, acanthus necking to columns, circle patterned wrought iron railings. On first floor opening onto balcony is large tripartite French window, glazing bars, fluted colonettes as mullions, cornice above which is a large traceried segmental light, all in a gauged brick segmental arched reveal. Outer bays, originally sashed have C20 aluminium framed windows, gauged brick flat arched heads, stone sills. Continuous mutuled eaves cornice with a coped blocking course over centre. Cross axial stacks to rear centre and ends. Parallel range to rear of similar dimensions, mixed sashes and casements on 2 bay returns. Mutuled eaves cornice as to front. Large white brick stacks at ends of gambrel roof. Further back extends long 5-bay range. Right return has lean- to outshut with entrances, C19 and C20 casements, ground floor cambered heads, dormers, ridge stack where 2 forward bays meet 3 brick faced rear bays, roof hipped towards front. Rear gable end kneelers to brick parapet with tumbled- in brickwork. Interior: extensively altered, butt purlin roof with cambered collars in rear wing. To rear of middle block is a lean-to outbuilding behind a C19 red brick link wall, about 15m long and 2m high, segmental headed openings, 1 blocked, dentilled course to rounded brick coping. Park House was formerly known as St. John's after a church taken down in the C16.

Listing NGR: TM0987977567