Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, modernised around 1970. It is constructed from a mix of plastered local stone and flint rubble, with some cob, and has stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof, with asbestos tiles to a later extension. The original layout was a two-room plan, with the larger room to the right (south) featuring a gable-end stack. A 20th-century staircase was inserted between the two rooms, within the right-hand room. The smaller left room was originally unheated, and has a later lateral stack. A single-storey kitchen extension was added to the right end, also in the 20th century.

The main farmhouse is two storeys high, with an irregular three-window front featuring 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, and another window to the right-hand extension. The front doorway, roughly central to the main block, has a 20th-century part-glazed four-panel door. Inside, the farmhouse is largely a product of 20th-century modernisation, although the 17th-century structure remains. The right room’s crossbeam retains deep chamfers and straight cut stops. The fireplace in this room is built of plastered stone rubble, with a chamfered oak lintel and a rear oven. The left room contains two chamfered axial beams. Although the roof was not inspected, the owner reports it is supported by jointed cruck trusses.