Old Park

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST

5/43 Old Park - - II*

Farmhouse. C14 or early C15 with later alterations and additions. Cob, rendered, gabled-end wheat reed thatched roof and brick chimney shafts, with hipped rear wing forming an L-shaped plan overall. Originally a 3-room cross passage plan, the lower end originally to the right, the inner room adapted to a kitchen with wing. One axial and 2 external end stacks to main house, the left-hand stack with projecting bake oven and one external end stack to wing. 2 storeys throughout. Front: 3 window range. Ground floor with 2 doors (a third door to the extreme right affords access to a C20 lean-to) and three 2 and 3 light timber casement windows, renewed. 3-light windows above, lintels at eaves level, C19 timber casements. Wing, 3 window range, 2-light C19 casements above; door, with a small 1-light window, and another of 3 lights. Rear: main range with a 1-light, 6-pane casement window, and a door with C20 brick surround; the wing with a door set between two 2-light windows, with no windows at 1st floor level. Interior: right-hand front entrance gives into passage, but the rear door is not opposed to this. To the left of passage is a plank and muntin screen, muntins chamfered, visible only under rear staircase. Axial stack fireplace backs onto passage. No significant features in right-hand room. Hall: with renewed fireplace, deeply chamfered unstopped beam and large internal window sill. The late inserted floor is one metre above the level of the original lower end, and 20 cms above that of the left-hand room. Left-hand room with large fireplace, and a massive chamfered beam. The front (external) entrance to this room was originally opposed by a rear door, now blocked. Roof: medieval, and heavily smoke-blackened throughout. 2 jointed crucks, one at left-hand end, the other adjacent, to the inserted axial stack. Both morticed and pegged at apex, massive cambered collars, morticed and side pegged, trenched purlins (Alcock, type E). Original twig battening heavily sooted. A louvre is set above the original service end and cross passage.

Listing NGR: SX9650895202