Eythrope Park Farm

Eythrope Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 18th century, with a folly built around 1752 to its front, largely rebuilt in the late 19th century and incorporating an earlier 18th-century farmhouse to the rear. The walls are constructed of rubble stone with red brick banding and window lintels on the facade, brick side elevations, a rendered linking range, and a rubble stone rear range. The roof is tiled and hipped, featuring brick chimneystacks. The windows are a mix of multi-pane sash and casement styles. The farmhouse’s irregular plan consists of three connected ranges aligned north-south, although the northernmost range is on a different axis.

The south elevation comprises the altered northern wing of the folly, constructed of rubble stone with brick dressings to the windows, a string course, and stone plinth copings. It has two gables, with the left-hand gable advanced and featuring central 10-over-10 sash windows on each floor. The right-hand gable has a pair of smaller 10-over-10 sash windows on the ground floor, and casements above. The west elevation shows the returns of the three ranges. The right return is of rubble stone, followed by a brick section with a central chimneybreast and corbelled chimney, a plat band, and small windows. The hipped return has 10-over-10 sash windows similar to those on the front. The central linking range is rendered with a 3-light casement window above a 10-over-10 sash window, along with other windows. The rear range of the farmhouse exhibits brick dressings to the windows and a pitched tile roof.

The interior of the front range includes a deep niche to the openings in the stone walls. A 19th-century staircase features chamfered balusters and newels. There are 4-panel and 2-panel doors, a ground floor open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, plank doors, chamfered beams, a flat baluster attic stair, and farm rooms incorporating a former dairy.

The Eythrope Park estate neighbours Waddesdon Manor, the French Renaissance country house for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. The Rothschild family acquired the estate in the 19th century, and Alice de Rothschild undertook building works, of which the pavilion, grotto, and former stable block remain. The Eythrope mansion was demolished around 1810. Surviving drawings, dated July 3rd 1751, are held by the British Museum and depict a Gothic-style building for 'Sr. William Stanhope's Ethrupe', strongly resembling the present farmhouse’s facade, including castellations, a central arch, and the removal of the southern wing.