Park House

House. Dating from the mid-to-late 17th century and the late 18th to early 19th century, Park House has a rubble construction with a Westmorland slate roof to the front and a 20th-century slate roof to the rear. The building follows an irregular U-shaped plan: the original house now forms the left rear wing, possibly with an early extension forming the left two bays of the main facade, and a late 19th-century service wing to the rear right. Cellars are present beneath the front left two bays, and the building is two stories high, but the construction of the two main elements are on differing ground levels. The front elevation, facing The Green, has four bays. Features include an ashlar plinth and quoins. The third bay features part-glazed, leafy doors within an ashlar surround comprising fluted Tuscan engaged columns supporting a fluted frieze with end paterae, a cornice, and a blocking course. There are 16-pane sash windows with crown glass, along with ashlar projecting sills and deep lintels. An ashlar cornice and coping are also present. Chimneys are located at the ends of the building and between the second and third bays; the left chimney is external, and the first two chimneys are corniced ashlar, while the third is brick. The rear of the 17th-century wing exhibits an external stack that corbels outwards at first-floor level (partly obscured by an added single-story outhouse range) with a loft window in a partly dressed stone surround. A rear porch has a six-panel door within a quoined surround, a deep lintel, and a cavetto cornice. The left return of the rear left range has a first-floor, three-light chamfered mullion window. Inside, the front rooms have fielded panel doors and window shutters. In the ground-floor rooms to the left of the front door, two rooms have been combined into one, featuring shell niches flanking a fireplace on the wall adjacent to the front door, and differing moulded cornices with fretwork decoration. The room to the right of the door has decorative cornice, marginal bands of foliage, and a central circular ceiling motif, along with contemporary fire surrounds. The rear wing retains an original four-panel door (now within a later extension) set in a chamfered ashlar doorcase with an ogee cornice. A staircase leading to the sitting room in the rear wing has late 17th-century turned balusters. The sitting room has an ashlar fireplace with a triangular soffit to the lintel set within a square with ogee moulding, which is served by the external stack.