Castlepark Farmhouse

Castlepark Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, likely extended in the 19th century. It is built of whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, featuring a thatched roof that is gabled at the right end, hipped at the left end, and extends down as a catslide over a rounded rear stair turret. The house has projecting end stacks and an axial stack.

The original plan from the early to mid-17th century appears to have been single depth with two principal rooms, one on either side of an entrance lobby, and a dairy located at the rear of the lobby. There is a newel stair in the left-hand room, which was likely the parlour, while the right-hand room was probably the kitchen, heated by an end stack. In the early 19th century, a one-room plan addition was made to the right end of the house, and in the 20th century, the dairy was converted into a bathroom.

The exterior features two storeys with an asymmetrical four-window front and two thatched porches on posts: one leading into the lobby to the left of centre and the other into the right-hand room. The windows are 20th-century timber casements with glazing bars, arranged as two and three lights. The rear elevation includes a blocked doorway that once led into the centre room, a late 20th-century conservatory, and the rounded stair projection.

Inside, the left-hand two rooms have chamfered crossbeams, and the extreme left-hand room contains a partly blocked fireplace with step stops. The centre room has a fireplace with a plain lintel, granite rubble jambs, and a bread oven. The roof, which was not inspected at the time of the survey in 1986, is said to be a side pegged jointed cruck construction above the two left-hand rooms, with roof trusses that are reportedly not smoke-blackened.