Sheffield Park Farmhouse

Sheffield Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse that originated as a three-bay lobby entrance house in the late 16th century, with early 19th-century additions on the left side of the front elevation and later 19th-century additions on the right side and to the rear. The original structure is timber-framed, with the ground floor built in sandstone featuring a plinth, and the first floor is tile hung. The roof is tiled, replacing the original Horsham slabs, and there is an off-center late 16th-century brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and attics, with one hipped dormer and three 19th-century casement windows that have unusual trefoliated heads on the first floor, while the ground floor also has casements. A late 19th-century doorcase features a flat hood, five panels, and plain sidelights.

The early 19th-century wing is constructed of painted brick, featuring a gable and carved bargeboards, with one six-pane sash window and Gothick windows that have original leaded lights. The right-hand late 19th-century wing is built in English bond brickwork with curved bargeboards, while the left side has similar carved bargeboards. The rear elevation includes two two-storey gables with carved bargeboards, four casements with hood moulding, and a simple doorcase also featuring hood moulding.

Inside, there is a large open fireplace that was modified in the late 19th century when a baronial-style fireplace was added, but it retains a salt hole and space for a bread oven. The old parlour end has chamfered cross beams, and the first floor features a two-panelled 18th-century door. The central room of the original house has a large chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and large square floor joints, likely dating from the 16th century, along with jowled upright posts. There is an 18th-century curved staircase. The attic has a side purlin and windbrace roof, old floorboards, and smoke blackening in a small chamber on either side of the massive sandstone and brick chimney, which was previously sealed by lath and plaster walls. This suggests the presence of an original 16th-century smoke bay that predates the chimney stack's insertion.