Barn Park

Barn Park is a small country house dating from the early to mid-19th century, built on an older site and slightly remodelled in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of incised stucco on rubble, with a granite ashlar plinth, and has rag slate hipped roofs with projecting eaves supported by shaped wooden brackets. Stuccoed stacks are at the ends, and one original lateral stack remains to the left of the entrance front.

The house has a roughly L-shaped plan with a two-room-plan garden front. The layout includes a kitchen/living room to the left of the entrance front, a large entrance/stair hall, a lean-to study behind the stair hall, a pantry at the far left of the entrance front, and a service staircase behind.

The entrance front has two bays and is two stories high plus attics. It features three original hornless sash windows with glazing bars, and one horned copy window on the ground floor, all under shallow segmental arches. A round-arched doorway with a two-spoked fanlight and a glazed and panelled door (with flush bottom panels) is centrally positioned. A later 19th-century lean-to glazed porch with small panes sits to the left, with an original glazed door on its return. A cast-iron door is located high up on the right. The garden front has a left-hand bay broken forward, featuring paired round-arched two-pane horned sashes on the left, while the rest of the front has segmental arches over four-pane horned sashes. A 20th-century conservatory is located on the right. The rear elevation features original hornless sashes with glazing bars and a round-arched horned stair sash. A narrow hipped roof covers a small chamber in the angle, with a single-storey lean-to on its right; two raking dormers have original six-pane hornless sashes.

The interior remains largely unaltered since the 19th century. It contains an open-well staircase with an open string, scrolled brackets, stick balusters, and a handrail scrolled over newels. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices are present in the entrance hall and reception rooms, along with panelled shutters and reveals. Several mid-19th century chimneypieces with iron grates are also present, as is a slate floor to the pantry and a steep service staircase.

The building is set within a mature garden, and is part of a planned group of structures, including a garden wall, shippon, well house, barn with carriage houses, and gate piers and screen walls.