Park Farm

Large Renaissance farmhouse. Rubble stone with some ashlar dressings. Hipped U-plan slate roof has valley to SW. Lateral end-walls (to left and right) have two chimneystacks, each with a stone base and C20 brick flues. SE front has three small rooflights. Windows have segmental arches of stone voussoirs and shallow stone sills. On first floor are three 12-pane sashes, and traces in the masonry of two other blocked windows. Ground floor has C20 gabled stone porch (centre). To left are two 12-pane sashes, and to right, a large C20 window in an enlarged segmental-arched opening. Rear elevation faces farmyard. Attic storey has three gabled dormer windows, boarded at gable-head, with 6+6 casements. Main wall of rear elevation has C20 metal windows. On first floor are three windows in old openings (as described). Ground floor has similar window each side of off-centre boarded door, with C20 lean-to conservatory (right). Attached to SW elevation is a single-storey gabled addition with corrugated metal roof. To right, centre wall of main house has C20 windows on first and ground floors.

Symmetrical double-pile plan. 6-panel front door has upper four panels glazed. Entry into central stairhall. Ground-floor room (left) has fireplace with re-used cavetto moulded monolithic jambs, and segmental arch of stone voussoirs. Ground-floor room (right) has chamfered ceiling beam and C19 fireplace surround in black marble with jade colonettes supporting shelf each side. Dog-leg stair has been reconstructed on ground floor but fine C17 original survives on first and attic floors. Stair has closed string, turned slightly bulbous balusters and shaped rail. Square newel posts are beaded at angles with plain caps and have attached half balusters to inner face of newel. In attic balusters are plain. At back of house, C19 servants stair has winders. Back kitchen with chamfered ceiling beams and runout stops. Unusually large, habitable 5-room attic has collar truss roof with two tiers of chamfered purlins, and three surviving C17 plank and batten doors with strap hinges.