Rick Park

Rick Park is a house, originally two cottages, dating to circa 1840-50 in Lower Coombe, Colebrooke. The structure is built with plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks – one original and heightened with 20th-century brick. The roof is corrugated asbestos over what was originally thatch. Initially designed as a pair of south-facing cottages, consisting of a one-room and a two-room plan cottage, their subsequent joining obscures which end was larger. A projecting stack is located at the right (east) end, and an axial stack serves the left (west) end room.

The front elevation is symmetrical with five windows. It features original cast iron framed casements with three lights to the ground floor and two lights to the first floor, the central window being blind. The windows retain their iron glazing bars, forming a hexagonal lattice pattern with narrow margin panes. Original plank doors with vertical cover strips are positioned to the right and left of the central window. The plasterwork on the front has a faint, incised ashlar finish. The roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left. Circa 1984, plastered buttresses were added to the right end.

The rear elevation shows stair windows with iron glazing bars matching the front, and a central doorway sheltered by a 20th-century tiled monopitch hood. The interior is little modernised, retaining original joinery, though much of the carpentry is now plastered over.