Park House Farm House

LEIGH C.P. MYNTHURST TQ 24SW 9/145 Park House Farm House II*

Hall house. C14 with later C15 and C17 extensions, further additions and restorations in the 1930's. Timber framed, some posts renewed, with whitewashed brick infill and brick plinth, C20 plain tiled roofs, hipped with gablet to front, oversailing gable to right. L-shaped plan comprising a 3-bay hall house to front with C17 single bay extension to left and a C15 two bay hall to rear at right angles to rear right. Two storeys with offset double stack to front left, diagonal shafts rebuilt in C20, fine multiple C17 ribbed stack to rear wing with beehive pots and C19 stack to right end. C20 diamond-frame leaded casement fenestration, two windows on first floor left, one to right, similar arrangement below. 1930's ogee hip-roofed porch, two storeys, to right of centre with jetty on three sides. Tension bracing on first floor. One window on first floor and studded door below. Rear:- two dormers on wing, underbuilt in brick. Interior:- cambered tie beam and braced,square crown-post to left on front range, other braced crown posts exposed. Larger octagonal crown post with full, 4-way bracing on large,cambered tie beam with broach stops to chamfers on post and moulded cap,on rear hall. Duplicate curved bracing in Hall/Solar partition to front; spur pieces in spandrels between main posts and arched braces of open truss of hall. East end of solar overhangs the hall, a rare occurence in Surrey. (Cf - Little Bignor, Sussex). Report and survey of the house, prepared by R. T. Mason in the 1960's, are in the possession of the owners.

Listing NGR: TQ2171644326