Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse, later adapted as a small country house, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. It was remodelled between 1770 and 1785 for Elizabeth Warrick, daughter of Richard Peters. The front of the house is constructed of dressed freestone with granite quoins, basement lintels, a key stone, and sills. The remaining walls are of rubble, with slate-hanging to the front of the wing on the left, the second floor of the rear wing, and the first floor of a two-storey possible former porch. The roofs are dry slate hipped, except for the wing on the left which has asbestos slate with a crested 19th-century clay ridge and finials. Brick lateral stacks are located over the rear wall and side walls.

The building has an irregular T-shaped plan, with the 18th-century house built around parts of the earlier 16th or 17th-century structure. The main section of the “T” features an 18th-century front with a two-room plan and a stair hall, a lower kitchen wing on the left, a rear wing (heightened to three storeys circa the late 19th century) to the right-hand side, a two-storey probable former porch in the rear right-hand angle, and a further wing on the right that also projects forward as a cross wing. The house has two storeys over a basement, with a symmetrical five-window south front. Flat arches with projecting keystones top the original 18th-century 12-pane sash windows. The central doorway has a pair of 19th-century six-panel doors within a canted wooden porch with a flat roof, wide eaves with paired brackets, and a round-headed doorway. The original doors with fanlight heads and glazing bars remain, along with blind side panels under small arches. Two late 19th-century 12-pane horned sashes are located on the first floor of the left-hand return, in openings similar to those on the front. The other elevations have remained largely unaltered since the late 19th century.

Internally, the basement of the right-hand room (of the central two-room house) contains a late 16th or early 17th-century granite fireplace with a roll-moulded architrave and diabolo stops, with a later brick back. The principal rooms feature late 18th-century heavily moulded plaster ceiling cornices, a late 18th-century closed string dog-leg stair with a moulded handrail over stick balusters, panelled shutters, and four-panel doors. 19th-century chimney pieces are present in the ground floor rooms, with what are believed to be original chimney pieces on the first floor. Much old crown glass remains, with one pane inscribed “E Warrick”.