Park House

Park House is a house constructed in the powerful French Gothic style, likely dating to the 18th century. It is built of snecked, rock-faced Caerphilly stone with Boxground (bathstone) dressings, and has steeply-pitched slate roofs and stone chimneys. The house is two storeys plus an attic, and extends over a basement.

On the right-hand side is an advanced gabled block featuring a fleur-de-lys pinnacle and paired Gothic windows in the attic. It has two Gothic windows of two lights with straight heads, divided by Romanesque columns, with arched tympana containing hexafoils. The ground floor windows have three lights and two transoms, divided by a buttress. To the left, there are two attic dormers. The first floor features three windows similar to those in the gabled block and an arcade of three bays with pointed Gothic arches and granite columns with floreated capitals. A string course runs along the arcade, punctuated by gargoyles. The basement has three mullion and transom windows and one arched window of three lights on the right.

The left elevation has two gables; a tall chimney is situated on the front gable, and a four-light Gothic window with plate tracery is in the rear gable. The main entrance is on the north side, accessed through a Gothic loggia of granite columns with foliated capitals, and leads to original wooden doors. The rear, south-facing gabled block has a mullion and transom window in the attic, two similar windows on the first floor, and a five-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor. A steel staircase, encased in glass, was added by Hoggett, Lock-Necrews in 1990.

The entrance lobby faces the underside of the staircase, which leads to a high stair hall containing a broad timber staircase with a richly carved mahogany balustrade. At the half landing, the staircase divides, and a three-bay Gothic window dominates the hall, which features a panelled and vaulted ceiling. The ground floor also contains a drawing room, an ante room leading to the dining room, and the dining room itself. These rooms have heavily beamed ceilings with half round beams on stone corbels, and arched grey and white fireplaces with mahogany overmantels featuring colonettes and mirrors. The first floor offers three bedrooms.