Park Farmbuildings And 1 And 2, Park Farm Cottages

Park Farmbuildings and 1 and 2, Park Farm Cottages date to 1768 and were built by Capability Brown as a menagerie for the Fourth Duke of Marlborough. The buildings were remodelled and further structures, including cottages, were added around 1858. They are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled concrete tile roofs, Welsh slate to the covered yards, and a hipped corrugated iron roof to attached central ranges. The layout is arranged around a courtyard.

The front range is single-story with a central, two-story archway surmounted by a stone-coped gable with moulded kneelers. The archway contains a fleuree cross and a keyed semi-circular arch with imposts over plank double doors. Flanking the archway are wings, each with a three-window range. Keyed flat stone arches are above blocked windows, and a two-light chamfered stone-mullioned window is to the left. To the rear of the buildings, segmental stone arches are visible over plank stable doors and hit-and-miss ventilators to looseboxes. One range enclosing the right side of the courtyard has segmental arches over arcaded shelter sheds. A roothouse is located to the rear of the shelter shed, which has brick dressings. The range enclosing the left side of the courtyard features a through-entry to the rear, and includes haylofts over a loosebox range. Facing the outer side is a six-bay segmental-arched cartshed range and two implement sheds with plank double doors. Shelter sheds with segmental-arched arcades extend from the sides to the center of the yard, dividing it into four smaller yards. These are supported on brick piers and have iron-trussed roofs. A five-bay shelter shed to the rear has timber posts and a collar-truss roof. The range enclosing the rear of the courtyard includes a central nine-bay barn with ventilation slits, a central through-entry, and a queen-post roof with iron bracing. A floor to the right of the barn has fly wheels connected to a two-story engine house to the rear, featuring timber lintels over plank double doors and casements.

Two cottages were built in 1858 and are situated to the front and rear of the right side of the farm. Each is one story and attic in height, with a stone-coped gable end featuring moulded kneelers and a lancet window above two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows. One cottage has a four-centred arched doorway with sunk spandrels, and both cottages have ridge stacks of stone with brick flues. The gateway and flanking wings of the front range survive, but have been modified; Capability Brown originally built this range in a Gothick style.