Downend Park Farmhouse

Downend Park Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house, significantly remodelled in the mid-18th century and restored around 1989. It is built with roughcast over coursed Lias rubble, with a brick end stack on the right side and a pantile roof featuring raised eaves, coped verges and a half-hipped section to the right. The plan is a single-depth, three-unit layout. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front. A full-height porch is positioned to the left of the centre, featuring a coped, pitched roof. A later block is set back to the right. The porch contains a pegged-frame doorway with a studded plank door, strap hinges and a flat canopy supported by scrolled brackets. The windows are mullioned with ovolo mouldings and metal casements, some including iron stanchions. They have chamfered timber lintels with rubble cornices above and 20th-century stone cills. There are four ground-floor windows, three on the first floor and a small arched light in the porch attic. c1990 rear dormers and a 19th-century roof are present. The interior includes a small lobby leading to a winding stair with an octagonal newel and a late 18th-century handrail and post on the ground floor. The right-hand ground-floor room has full-height late 18th-century panelling, alongside some trompe l'oeil painted panels and romantic view paintings behind. Original features include 17th-century studwork partitions, chamfered ceiling beams, three-board doors, elaborate wrought-iron window catches and stone fireplaces with fluted keys.