Park Farmhouse

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ST 46 SW CONGRESBURY

4/165 Park Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably C16, remodelled in late C17/early C18 and in Cl9. Painted stone rubble, rendered west front. Pantile roofs, (Bridgewater tiles at front), with gabled ends and hipped over rear block. Gable end stacks with rebuilt brick shafts and stone stack at rear heightened in brick. Plan: 4-cell front (west) range with gable end stacks, the 2 smaller centre cells are unheated, that on the right contains the staircase. Behind the centre room a cross-passage and a room in a short wing with a large stack; either side of the wing a later outshut; the large outshut on the right is on the back of the front range. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:2 window west front, the 2 right hand bays slightly higher and set back. 12-pane sashes. C20 porch in angle at centre with old plank inner door. Rear (east) elevation has wing with circa early C16 stone windows on first floor with hollow-chamfered 4-centred arch lights, hood mould and wrought-iron bars. Outshuts on either side of wing with pantile lean-to roofs. Interior: Only part of ground floor inspected. Good late C17 or early C18 moulded-string staircase with moulded balusters, square newels and heavy moulded handrail. Small unheated centre left room has unstopped chamfered cross-beam and doorway to passage behind with early arched wooden frame. Left hand room has fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Room in rear wing has chamfered cross-beam with step stops and large fireplace with chamfered timber lintel, its ends curved down over the jambs. Note: The Bishops of Bath and Wells were lords of the Manor in the C12 and C13 (A S Cram) Source: Revd. A S Cram, The Storey of Congresbury.

Listing NGR: ST4418763268