Description

TQ 03 SE
965/5/10040
26-OCT-00

SLINFOLD
PARK STREET
Park Farm

GV
II

House, former farmhouse. Circa 1400 former open hall of four bays which probably had an early C16 smoke bay before being ceiled over and external chimneystack added circa 1650. 1960s wing added to west and smaller wing to the north. Original part is timberframed with plastered infill to upper floor of north front and ground floor only of south and east fronts which have tilehung first floors, every fifth course having curved tiles. Half-hipped roof with gablets, hung with Horsham stone slabs. Two storeys; 3 windows. C20 casements. North side has C17 central large external brick chimneystack, left side C20 small one storey extension and right side porch. East front ground floor has massive curved braces. South front has early C19 Sussex bond infill. To west is 1960s or 1970s extension forming L-wing of brick and tile-hanging with hipped tiled roof.
INTERIOR: Entrance hall has stone floor and C18 winder staircase. Timberframed partition between hall and living room. Living room eastern bay has square cut timbers and axial beam has mid C17 stop. Also spine beam with two and a half inch chamfer and floor joists with lambs tongue stops. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer and cupboard rebated for spices or salt. First floor has massive curved windbraces and western end wall retains wattle and daub. Wide oak floor boards. Central room has seven panels of C16 or C17 pargetting and fireplace with cambered wooden bressumer and three alcoves above. Three plank door with pintle hinges. Queenstrut roof with wide flat collars and heavy side purlins between collars and rafters. Rafters are reused, sooted and mediaeval with carpenter's marks, not in sequence. The soot encrustation on a partition suggests an enclosed smoke bay at one stage. 1960s wing has c1900 Jacobean style panelling thought to have been reused from a masonic hall.

[Dr Annabelle Hughes unpublished report on 'Park Farm Slinfold' of 1995.]

Listing NGR: TQ0987431171

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668553

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