Park House

SE 26 NE 5/59 6.3.57

MARKINGTON WITH WALLERTHWAITE FOUNTAINS LANE (west side, off) Park House

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Farmhouse. C17 and 1810. Coursed squared gritstone and coursed gritstone rubble, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. South front: bay to right is remnant of a C17 house, the left 2 bays and the third storey overall is a rebuild of 1810. Quoins to left. C20 6-panel door between bays to left has sawn stone surround and a date stone above inscribed 'T. Athorpe Esqr 1810'. A large stone above has a carving in relief of a shield with lion rampant. Flanking and first-floor windows have 16-pane C20 pivoting frames in sawn stone surrounds. Bay to right has cross-window to ground and first floor, both considerably restored. Kneeler and gable coping to left; roof hipped to right. Stacks to right end and centre. Rear: C20 porch with large external stack to left, C19 and C20 windows to right. Left return: stone steps up to door in gable. Right return: central C20 door with almost flat-arched chamfered stone lintel and jambs, weathered datestone set into top of lintel. Corbelled base of external stack to first-floor fireplace above the door. To right: 3-light recessed mullion and transom window, a 2- light and a single-light mullioned window to first floor, and a 16-pane window to second floor. Interior: ground floor, restored C20, has open fireplace with cambered arch of voussoirs (restored) in room to left. The second floor was built as a storage chamber with access from the external stairs at the west end. The roof is divided by 5 oak trusses, the timbers of slight scantling and thickened at the joints. The tie beam has a king- post supporting a collar with another post above, and 3 diagonal braces extend from king posts to principal rafters which carry 4 sets of purlins. An excellent closely-dated roof. B Harrison and B Hutton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984 p 181. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 40 (1975).

Listing NGR: SE2668767660