Park Farmhouse

An early-C19 parish workhouse, with an earlier rear wing, and adapted into a farmhouse in the mid-C19.

MATERIALS: dressed limestone, with a clay tile roof and brick stacks. The interior joinery is timber, and there some of the ground floor rooms have flag stone floors.

PLAN: the building is two-storey plus attic, constructed on an L-plan.

EXTERIOR: the main elevation is of three bays with a central six-panelled door with transom light and a wooden hood on consoles. The windows either side have sixteen-pane sashes. The first floor windows have four-pane wide 12-pane sashes either side of a central 9-pane sash. All the windows have moulded flush architraves. There are two gabled attic dormers in the lower pitch of the mansard roof, with pivot-hung windows. The left return has two-light casements to the ground and first floors. The right return has a four-panelled door and a window with a sixteen-pane sash. There are two-light and three-light casements to both floors of the east elevation of the rear wing. The west side of the wing has an outshut with two-light casements, two flat-headed dormers with leaded casements, and a planked door to the north gable end inside a modern projecting porch. There is a shallow outshut to the rear (north) of the front range. There are a tall end stack and a ridge stack in the roof of the front range, and there is a further stack on the rear wing roof.

INTERIOR: the central hallway has an early-C19 stair with a wreathed handrail and stick balusters. The joinery throughout the front range, including four-panelled doors, architraves, skirting and rebated shutters, is moulded. The ceilings have moulded cornices and large section chamfered beams. The two principal rooms have fireplaces, on of which is of C19 date. One of the first floor bedrooms has a C19 fireplace. The doors and windows have C19 furniture. The joinery in the rear wing is plain, with braced plank doors and strap hinges. The attic floor doors are plain plank. There is a C19 stair in the rear wing.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a covered cellar below the farmyard may have been used to store cider apples.