Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th century, with remodels in the late 17th to early 18th century and further changes in the 19th century. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble, with a rendered west front. It features pantile roofs, with Bridgewater tiles at the front, gabled ends, and a hipped roof over the rear block. The gable end stacks have rebuilt brick shafts, and there is a stone stack at the rear that has been heightened in brick.

The plan consists of a four-cell front range with gable end stacks. The two smaller central cells are unheated, while the cell on the right contains the staircase. Behind the central room is a cross-passage leading to a room in a short wing that has a large stack. There are later outshuts on either side of the wing, with a larger outshut on the right at the back of the front range.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an asymmetrical arrangement of windows on the west front, with two sets of two windows. The two right-hand bays are slightly higher and set back, and the windows are 12-pane sashes. There is a 20th-century porch at the centre with an old plank inner door. The rear elevation has a wing with early 16th-century stone windows on the first floor, featuring hollow-chamfered four-centred arch lights, hood moulds, and wrought-iron bars. The outshuts on either side of the wing have pantile lean-to roofs.

The interior has only had part of the ground floor inspected. It includes a good late 17th or early 18th-century moulded-string staircase with moulded balusters, square newels, and a heavy moulded handrail. The small unheated room on the centre left has an unstopped chamfered cross-beam and a doorway to the passage behind with an early arched wooden frame. The left-hand room has a fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. The room in the rear wing features a chamfered cross-beam with step stops and a large fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel, where the ends curve down over the jambs.

Historically, the Bishops of Bath and Wells were the lords of the Manor in the 12th and 13th centuries.