Park House

House, on the site of the Keeper's house of the medieval park, later a farmhouse. The building comprises a 16th-century timber-framed structure with a 17th-century cross-wing, refronted in the early 18th century, with minor 19th and 20th-century alterations.

The front wall, dating from the 18th century, is constructed of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, featuring a plinth, first-floor band, and rubbed flat arches, though some features have been altered. The cross-wing has walls of flint with brick dressings, plinth, quoins, and hoodmoulds, with a modillion brick cornice at the foot of the front gable; several features have been modified. Other walls are of brickwork in English Garden Wall and Flemish bonds, with some cambered openings. The rear gable of the cross-wing displays exposed timber framing with brick infill, and a small area of framing is exposed at the rear.

The roof is tiled with plaster coved eaves, hipped above the porch, with a catslide at the rear incorporating a high-level hipped dormer and a lower gabled dormer. The early timber-framed structures originally had a rear outshot and were refronted in the early 18th century to a higher eaves level, with a projecting full-height porch and cross-wing added.

The south front elevation is two storeys and attic and three storeys and attic with a fenestration pattern of 1.1.2.1 windows. Sashes sit in exposed frames, with triple sashes to the ground floor on each side of the porch. A 20th-century classical doorcase stands above spreading steps. The east elevation of the cross-wing shows three storeys with three widely-spaced windows: sashes in exposed frames and some 20th-century ground-floor casements. The rear elevation is a low two storeys with irregular fenestration of casements and a plain door; at the east side, below the tall gable of the cross-wing, there is a projecting single-storeyed double-pile service wing.

Interior features include exposed timber framing on the first floor in the original rear wall, with large rectangular panels and a straight brace from the midrail up to the wall-post. The front wall is reported also to be timber-framed. The first-floor left-hand room had a wood-mullioned window in the rear wall, now covered over, with evidence that the house extended a short way to the left; this section now houses a brick fireplace, probably early 17th-century, with lambs-tongue-stopped chamfered jambs and a chamfered shallow four-centred-arched timber lintel. A wattle and daub partition divides the left-hand and central first-floor rooms.

The main dog-leg staircase dates from the early 19th century and features columnar newels, stick balusters, and moulded tread soffits. In the rear range is a shallow flight of steps, probably late 18th-century, with a closed string and turned balusters and newel. The cross-wing contains a late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with a closed string, square newels with ogee finials and pendant finials, and columnar balusters with moulded bases and capitals; this stair rises to the attic, which has a section of moulded splat balusters. Old board doors occur throughout.