Park House

Park House is a house that dates from the early to mid 16th century, with additions from the mid 17th century and the 18th century. It has two storeys and attics, constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior, topped with black glazed pantiled roofs. The house underwent extensive modernization in the 1960s.

It features a range of three-light small-paned 20th-century casement windows on each storey, with a two-light window above the porch and four gabled dormers that have fluted bargeboards and two-light casements. There is a 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with a boarded door. The house has one internal chimney stack and another on the south gable end, both with plain rebuilt red brick shafts.

The structure consists of eight bays, including a chimney bay. The original 16th-century house included the bay to the south of the internal stack and two or possibly three bays to the north. The ground storey ceilings in the bays on either side of the stack have heavy unchamfered joists, with the main beam on the north featuring multiple roll-moulding. During restoration, a fireback was found in the fireplace on the south side of the stack, displaying the Royal Arms and the date 166-, likely 1660, marking the Restoration.

The two upper rooms in the central section of the house have reused roll-moulded joists, cut in half lengthwise and set on edge, with one featuring an incised circular floral motif. The northernmost bay has a plain heavy beam-and-joist ceiling, while the two intermediate bays had their joists replaced at a very late stage. At the south end, two 18th-century bays were added, complete with an end chimney stack, showcasing typical late framing and reused timbers, with a roof supported by two rows of butt purlins.

At the rear, there are two matching one-and-a-half storey wings added in the mid 17th century, also with butt-purlin roofs. During restoration, a number of mummified cats were discovered below one floor, with two remaining in the house. Various original doorways, some of which are blocked, are still present, and the outer parts of the frame show signs of weathering. Park House is the only surviving house from the lost village of Little Fakenham.