Slade Park

Slade Park is a house, originally likely a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with an addition from the mid to late 17th century. It features rendered cob and colourwashed rubble walls, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right and rear wing. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the left end and a brick stack at the gable end of the wing. The layout consists of a three-room plan, with a narrow central room heated by an axial stack at the right-hand end, which has a file entry in front of it. The two end rooms are both heated by end fireplaces, although the left-hand one may not be original. A heated rear wing was added behind the right-hand end in the mid to late 17th century. The house was divided into two cottages in the 19th century but has recently been converted back into a single dwelling.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front, featuring five windows on the ground floor, which are 20th-century one and two-light casements, with the right-hand ones having metal frames. There is a 19th-century plank door at the left-hand end.

Inside, the right-hand end room has a chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops, and its fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel and dressed stone splayed jambs. The central room has heavy axial beams with deep chamfers and hollow step stops, along with a fireplace that has a chamfered wooden lintel and elongated pyramid stops, and a brick oven on the left side. Opposite the fireplace, the wall has 17th-century panelling above a bench. The left-hand room also has a chamfered axial beam. The roof timbers over the main range were replaced in the 18th or 19th century, while the rear wing retains one 17th-century truss with straight principals and a cambered collar halved on with a dovetail joint.