Listed Building: PARK FARMHOUSE (280957)

BROME RECTORY ROAD TM 17 NW 1/16 Park Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. Mid C16. Modernised 1978-9. A 2-cell main range with contemporary service range to rear forming T-shape plan. Timber framed and plastered. Main range is pantiled, the rear range thatched. 2 storeys with attics to main range. Mid C20 casement windows. 2 original mullioned windows are exposed at first floor level, with 2 others in the rear wall. Lobby entrance: mid C20 plank door with cover battens and a small oblong fanlight. Stack has 2 C19 octagonal shafts with corbelled star caps. Left gable end has fully exposed studs and a jettied first floor carried on plain brackets supported by 4 buttress shafts (2 are fragmentary). The bressummer, now much weathered, was probably moulded. Blocked secondary ground floor window with cavetto mullions. The hall and parlour have good moulded beam and joist ceilings. The parlour ceiling has a fully-moulded axial floorbeam with run- out stops and joists with one hollow and one roll moulding; applied moulded cornice. The hall ceiling has a double hollow moulding to all components, carried down the wallposts. Queen-post roof, the portion over the parlour cell altered at a later date, probably when an attic was made. Service range in 4 bays, one of which contains a stack. Plain joists on ground floor. The queen-post roof over this range is unusual in having an extra pair of queen- posts outside the main ones, with short side ties extending from the main queen-posts to rest on the tops of the outer ones. The roof was originally hipped. Both ranges have good quality studding with reversed braces. Listing NGR: TM1418476556