Park Villa And Park House

Park Villa and Park House are two cottages that were originally a single house, dating from the 17th century but mostly rebuilt in the 19th century. They are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick, and feature a thatched roof. The cottages face northeast, with Park Villa on the right (northwest) designed as a two-room plan building that includes an axial stack and a through-passage at the right end. Park House, on the left (southeast), is a two-room crosswing with an outside lateral stack. Both buildings are two stories high and present an overall irregular four-window front, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Park Villa has a 19th-century six-panel front door and a 20th-century gabled porch with a slate roof. Park House has a 20th-century French window door. The passage between the two cottages has no doorways at either end. The roof of Park Villa is gable-ended on the right, while Park House has a hipped roof. The interiors display plain carpentry details, except for Park House, which features a large mid-17th-century stone rubble fireplace with an oak lintel that has a soffit chamfer and bar run-out stops. The roofs were not inspected.