Parkfield

Parkfield

A cottage of early 18th-century date, extended in the later 18th century and with mid-to-late 19th-century and 20th-century additions and alterations.

The building is constructed of coursed Cotswold limestone rubble with dressed limestone window mullions, cills, architraves and hood moulds, and a door hood. The roof is covered with Cotswold stone slates and has stone chimneystacks. The roof structures are of various timber species including pine, elm, ash and alder. Most of the ground floor has timber fittings and flagstones, with elm and pine floorboards elsewhere. The attached washhouse has a concrete floor and the rear outshut contains modern interventions.

The cottage is built on a south-west to north-east orientation with a two-room, single-depth plan and two storeys. Attached to the north is a full-height, in-line end bay with a single-storey wash house block, forming an L-plan. A single-storey 20th-century outshut extends to the rear.

The principal south-west elevation comprises three bays with an additional bay and projecting outshut to the left. The ground floor has two-light, six-pane casements with mullions beneath hood moulds on either side of a central entrance with a pediment hood. The hood is supported by console brackets engaged in the window moulds, themselves supported by inserted limestone blocks that form piers either side of the entrance. The stone door jambs and head are chamfered, and the window hood moulds have label stops at their outer ends. The first floor contains three mullioned casements; the central opening is blocked with stone sheets. To the left is a former wash house outshut with a chamfered door head formed from a reused 18th-century window lintel and a window with chamfered surround. The outshut has a lean-to roof forming a catslide with the cottage roof and its south-west elevation is set into the bank of the garden.

The south-east gable end of the cottage has a stone plinth and traces of former openings. The 20th-century outshut to the right has two window openings and extends across the north-east rear elevation of the cottage with reordered openings. The lean-to roof continues the main roof pitch in a catslide arrangement. The entrance to the later 18th-century north end stable is to the right. This is laid out as a single room open to the roof and is partly lofted. Large limestone blocks to the doorway have rebates and boltholes for a former gate. Apotropaic marks, including an 'M' and a 'W', are cut into the jambs. The plank door has iron fitments. The north gable end has a blocked opening beneath a timber lintel at ground-floor level and a window at first-floor level. At the right corner, where the wash house joins, is a projecting stone buttress. The north elevation of the wash house has a tall single-light window in a chamfered opening.

Two stone stacks rise to the ridge of the main range. The north stack appears to be of 18th-century date and has two offsets. The south stack is rebuilt.

The ground-floor vestibule has 20th-century panelling with a room to each side. The south room has an early 20th-century fireplace and a window seat. The door to the rear outshut is chamfered to the outer face. The rear outshut has no historic fittings. The north room has a window seat, a mid-19th-century fireplace, a four-panel door and a staircase. A cupboard beneath the stair contains an 18th-century door and frame. The first floor has an inserted 19th-century partition wall and a front wall cupboard that encloses the blocked central window. The south room has a mid-19th-century fireplace. The north room has a cupboard enclosing a blocked window to the north end stable. The roof structure contains two trusses with bolted collars, unworked purlins and ridge piece, and other secondary timbers of various species, many retaining whitewash. The loft floor is laid with alder branches. The south gable is plastered with a blocked window; at the north end is a truncated stone chimney flue. Throughout the cottage are mid-19th-century fittings and joinery including braced plank doors and skirting boards. The window seats are of unknown date.

The storeroom and stable addition has a timber stall and loft with a flagstone floor. It contains a sealed window with timber lintel in the wall to the wash house, and a manger is attached to the opposite corner above which a first-floor window to the attached cottage is plastered over. The roof structure is largely of machine-sawn timber, and the walls are partly whitewashed. The wash house interior has whitewashed walls with a sealed opening to the stable. The roof structure is smoke-blackened with a mixture of 19th and 20th-century timbers, some reused.