Description

SWINEFLEET KING'S CAUSEWAY
SE 72 SE
(north-east side, off)
5/98 Park Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
14.2.67 Swinefleet Park)
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid-late C18 with later C18 - early C19 additions to rear. Red
brick in Flemish bond with scored joints, ashlar dressings; concrete tile
roof. L-shaped on plan; original double-depth section with 2-room central
entrance-hall west front; 2-room extension to rear left with infill in
angle. 2 storeys, 5 bays; symmetrical. Central bay breaks forward.
3-course brick plinth band, largely rendered. 3 stone steps to entrance
Late C18 doorcase has fluted pilasters with foliate capitals carrying
entablature with composition ornament in frieze (urn and festoons to centre,
figures to flanking dosserets), dentilled cornice and moulded pediment with
festoons in tympanum. 6-fielded-panel door beneath cornice and overlight
with radial glazing bars in reveal. 12-pane sashes in slightly-recessed
wooden architraves with projecting sills and rubbed-brick flat arches with
raised keystones, the ground-floor keystones supporting a painted 3-course
brick first-floor band. Deep modillion eaves conice. Swept hipped roof.
Pair of stacks behind ridge. Left return: early section to right has early
C19 flat-roofed ground-floor bow window with 2 unequal 15-pane sashes in
reveals with sills and stucco flat arches below coped parapet, tripartite
sash with glazing bars and small sash in blocked former entrance, two 12-
pane first-floor sashes and eaves cornice similar to front. Later section
to left has C20 half-glazed door beneath 3-pane overlight in pilastered
doorcase, C19 12-pane sashes and blind first-floor panel in similar
surrounds to front. Interior. Original details include: moulded dado rail,
moulded cornice to entrance hall; arch to stairhall with panelled pilasters,
dentilled capitals, archivolt and panelled soffit; similar arch to upper
hall; good open well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, column-on-
vase balusters with square knops, moulded column newel and carved scrolled
brackets; dentilled cornice, moulded skirting and good composition chimney-
piece to ground floor right with fluted pilasters and fluted frieze with
paterae, urn and festoons; moulded cornice and fielded-panel dado to ground
floor left; moulded cornice and chimney-piece flanked by fielded-panel
cupboard doors with H-hinges to study, rear right; moulded cornices and
chiney-pieces to main first-floor bedrooms, the chimney-piece to first floor
right with composition ornament; panelled window shutters and doors in
architraves and panelled reveals. Elliptical-arched brick vaulted cellars
to rear.

Listing NGR: SE7734822220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26364708

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