Postern Park Farmhouse

Postern Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 18th century, with some parts possibly being older, and features various extensions from the late 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed partly of brick and partly of timber framing. The ground floor is made of red brick, which is randomly bonded and tends to follow an English bond pattern, with some decorative burnt headers on the end walls. The first floor is tile-hung, and some of the timber framing is exposed at the rear on the ground floor. The farmhouse has brick stacks and chimney shafts, topped with a peg-tile roof.

The house has a double depth plan and faces south. The three front rooms serve as the main living areas, with service rooms located at the rear. There is a central entrance hall with a stair block at the back, flanked by a kitchen on the left (west) and a parlour on the right (east), both of which have rear lateral stacks. Some sections at the rear are later additions, particularly the left end part behind the kitchen. Despite modern extensions added in the 19th century, the original layout has been preserved. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with attics in the roof space of the front block and a cellar beneath the center.

The exterior is not perfectly symmetrical. The central front doorway now features a 20th-century door. There are 19th-century 12-pane sash windows on either side of the doorway, with two additional windows to the right. To the left, there is a 20th-century horned 6-pane sash window. A timber moulded cornice runs at the first floor level and wraps around the end walls. The first floor has three 20-pane sash windows. The eaves are plain, and the roof is hipped at both ends, containing three dormer windows with 19th-century casements that have glazing bars and hipped roofs. The rear section of the farmhouse is lower and has gable-ended cross roofs. The rear features a large central 12-pane sash window for the stairs, with 20-pane sashes on either side for the first floor rooms.

At the time of the survey, only the ground floor was accessible. Very little carpentry was visible, and none was found in the front rooms. Most of the joinery appears to be from the 19th century, including an open string stick baluster staircase with a mahogany handrail. The window reveals have fielded panel shutters, which may be original, and it is likely that more original joinery exists upstairs. The roof was not inspected.