Park Farmhouse

Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and features slate roofs, along with brick stacks at the rear and internal and end stacks set on stone bases. The building is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys plus an attic, with a five-window range. The main facade faces the garden and includes a low central two-storey gabled porch. This porch has a Tudor-arched stone doorway with cut spandrels and a ridged, studded door. There is a hollow-chamfered string course and a horned plate glass sash window on the first floor, which features a stop-chamfered wood lintel. Similar sash windows are present on both the ground and first floors of the main range. The building has quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The rear right wing has similar sash windows on the first floor, a large 19th-century bay window, and a 20th-century porch leading to a side door.

Inside, the farmhouse features moulded and chamfered spine beams with ogee stops. There is a fine dog-leg staircase that leads from the ground floor to the attic, complete with squared balusters, a moulded handrail, and carved finials on the newel posts. A timber spiral back stair has serpentine splat balusters leading to the first-floor landing rail and a child gate. The interior also includes an open fireplace with an ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer, a corner fireplace with a chamfered depressed arched timber head, boarded stud partitions, stone flagged floors, and a collar truss roof. The house is said to date from 1601.