Parkfield

Parkfield is a large house dating from the 18th century, constructed of limestone ashlar with a hipped slate roof, dormers, and moulded stacks. The house has a double depth plan with a central gabled range that projects forward.

The two-storey main block, incorporating an attic and basement, has a symmetrical four-window front. A ground floor platband encircles the building, and stone brackets support the eaves. A pierced circular feature adorns the apex of the central gable, which is flanked by paired two-over-two pane sash windows in the attic, featuring horizontal glazing bars and a sill band. The tall, paired, segmental-arched plate glass windows on the first floor are sheltered by a cornice resting on consoles, which form a balcony supported by a projecting porch. The porch has moulded coping to its panelled parapet, which steps forward and is pierced over the entrance. The entrance is distinguished by a moulded archivolt with blocks to the key and sides, moulded imposts, an impost band, and a plain fanlight above bolection-moulded double doors with two panels.

To the right of the main block is a three-storey belvedere, set back from the facade, with a wrought iron finial and an eaves band to its pavilion roof. It features a raised surround, sill band, and chamfered mullion dividing paired semicircular arched windows to the second floor. A similar impost band defines a single semicircular arched window to the first floor, and a small window sits beneath the platband. The main block also has gabled dormers on either side, with raised surrounds and bracketed sills to the plate glass first floor windows and a similar ground floor window to the right. A C20 lean-to conservatory sits to the left.

The left return features a hip-roofed, full-height canted bay and an external stack flanked by narrow ground floor windows. The rear elevation is similar, with one small window beside the stack.

Inside, a large entrance hall is characterised by a guilloche frieze and an open-well staircase with an open string, fretted ends, turned balusters, a wreathed mahogany handrail, and a curtail step.