Listed Building: PARK FARMHOUSE (285451)

GRUNDISBURGH GRUNDISBURGH ROAD TM 24 NW (East side) 4/85 Park Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C15 or C16 with C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed with colourwashed render and Red Flemish bond brick skin and a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Two-storey hall plan with inserted first floor. Entrance front: C19 addition at right with steeper roof pitch. The left hand C17 portion has brick walling to the ground floor and C20 fenestration. Projecting single-storey gabled porch at right of centre which has a pointed-arched gable of C20 brick with a cambered-headed entrance arch which is chamfered. Four-panel C20 door within. To right of the porch is a 3-light casement and to left are 2 similar windows, all metal framed. To far right the C19 portion has a similar 3-light window. The first floor has rendered walling and above the porch a 3-light casement with similar windows at either side. Two-light similar casements to far left and right. To the ridge at left of centre is an axial 3-flue stack. The right hand end has a lean-to outshut to the ground floor and a 3-light, a 2-light and a single-light casement to the first floor. Left hand gable end has a C19 canted bay window to the ground floor and a 2-light casement to the first floor. Rear: the walling is stuccoed and grooved in imitation of ashlar blocks. Projecting lean-to outshut at left and projecting plinth to the remainder. Central 3-light window has a wedge-lintel and projecting keystone and may, at one time, have been a doorway. To right of this is a 2-light casement and to the first floor are three 2-light casements. Interior: one ground floor room has a chamfered ceiling beam supported on an under-beam which is also chamfered and connects to the wall posts by corner arch braces which would appear to be a later insertion. Massive late-C16 or early-C17 chimney stack with chamfered bressumer and some renewed brickwork. C19 staircase hall with a staircase of one flight with turned balusters and moulded and ramped handrail. One further ground floor room with chamfered ceiling beam. To the first floor are a series of trusses having cambered tie beams with arched braces, and a possible spere truss and one with a long central mortice channel as if to receive the tenons of a pair of arched braces forming a pointed arch to the centre of the hall. The roof timbers have all been replaced in the C18 or C19. Listing NGR: TM2268749756