Park Farm Cottage

Park Farm Cottage is a pair of farmworkers’ cottages built in the late 18th or early 19th century. Constructed of rubble stone with ashlar stone dressings, it features a pitched stone tiled roof with stone copings to the gable ends. The building has one axial stack and two gable end stacks, built of stone and incorporating decorative bands.

The plan is double-depth, with a late 20th-century extension to the rear. The front elevation is symmetrical, with entrances to the left and right, each originally serving one of the cottages. These are flanked by two centrally positioned eight-over-eight pane sash windows on each floor. The entrances have vertical boarded timber doors, and the entrance on the right has a small, late 20th-century porch. At the rear, above the flat-roofed, late 20th-century extension, are two eight-over-eight pane sash windows to each of the original cottages. Small six-over-six pane sash windows are positioned centrally in the gable ends; one at attic level, and another on the ground floor, to light the rear of each cottage.

The interior retains several late 18th and 19th-century features, including ground floor stairs with turned balusters, a flagstone floor, two large stone fireplaces with cast iron ranges, and a rendered brick cream-maker. Upstairs, each bedroom has a small stone fireplace with a cast iron grate, and the attic rooms have timber boarded doors with attached boarded screens.

The cottages originally served as workers’ accommodation at Park Farm and share similar vernacular characteristics with the nearby Park Farmhouse, which bears a 1778 date stone. Between 1886 and 1900, the cottages were extended to the rear, now occupied by the late 20th-century kitchen extension.

The cottages are designated for their largely intact plan form, the survival of good-quality late 18th and 19th-century fixtures and features, their symmetrical and balanced design demonstrating good craftsmanship using distinctive local materials, and their historical association with the nationally important Park Farmhouse.