Description

1. WAVENDON LOWER END ROAD

8/142 Park Farmhouse

II

House. Early C19 with early C17 rear block. Painted brick, slate roof with end stacks.
Moulded wood eaves cornice. Rear block timber-framed with brick infill and additions
each end, front painted roughcast. Old tiled roof, central brick chimney and later
chimney to W.bay. 2 storeys. Most windows have margin glazing. N.elevation has
2 bays of 2-light casements with painted lintels. Gables have bargeboards and finials.
W.elevation has 2-storied gabled porch to right with half-glazed flush-panel door with
rectangular fanlight and stucco doorcase of panelled pilasters and frieze with cornice.
S elevation of rear block has small C18 projecting wing to left with sash window to
each floor, central flush-panel door in moulded architrave frame, two 2-light casements
to left, modern 3-light casement to right, later bay to right with door and a 2-light
casement with segmental arch, four 2-light casements to first floor. N. elevation of
rear wing has 2 bays of 2-light casements. E.gable of main block has flush-panel door,
upper panel glazed, with margin-glazed fanlight and 1-light upper sash.
Interior has entrance hall with 2 openings in S.wall with heavy arch features, staircase
with scrolled tread-ends and rope-mould to soffit, square newels and balusters and
slender handrail curved round wall at upper landings. Front rooms have moulded cornice
and 2 marble fireplaces. Rear block has exposed timber framing and heavy chamfered
spine beams, inglenook fireplace, original roof structure with queenpost trusses, curved
windbraces and coupled rafters.

Listing NGR: SP9213437566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508239

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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