Parkhouse Farmhouse

Parkhouse Farmhouse is a detached house, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. It is constructed from squared, coursed lias rubble to the front, with rubble to the returns and back, and has a double-Roman tile roof and pantiles to the outbuildings. The plan is a lofty double-depth layout with a symmetrical front and rear, a central hall, a rear staircase, a single-storey gabled porch, and small outbuildings to the rear of each gable end.

The house is three storeys high with a five-window front, featuring two-light wood mullion and transom casements with leading, many of which are replacements set to thin wood lintels. A continuous moulded string course runs at first-floor level. There is a central gabled porch with an arched entry over a 20th-century door. A large, added raking buttress is located between bays 1 and 2 at a lower level. The string course above the ground floor is not continuous. Four coped gables each have broad rubble stacks raised on continuous coping. The right return is plain, with one blocked opening at second-floor rear right, and a small gabled outbuilding with a brick stack. Continuous string courses run above the first and second floors. The left return has a lean-to extension with a doorway, and two windows to the rear and one to the front, with string courses similar to those on the opposite end.

The rear elevation is regular, with two windows each side of a three-light stair window dropped to landing levels. The ground-floor windows on the right are set in deep reveals. String courses stop at the stair windows, which have separate drips above.

The interior includes chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, original door frames, doors and fireplaces, and an open-well staircase with turned balusters and a closed string.