Description

SK 79 NW HAXEY UPPERTHORPE ROAD
(south side)
Westwoodside
13/123 Park Farmhouse

- II

Wrongly marked as Upperthorpe Hill on Ordnance Survey map. Farmhouse, now
house. 1774, with later alterations. Brown brick, in Flemish bond to
front. Concrete tile roof. T-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall
north front with 2-room wing and single-room addition to rear. 2 storeys, 3
bays; symmetrical. Plain C20 door and plain overlight beneath keyed stucco
flat arch, flanked by C19 four-pane sashes in original flush wooden
architraves with sills beneath similar arches. 3-course first-floor band
with upper course projecting. Similar first-floor sashes in similar
surrounds. Dentilled brick eaves cornice, obscured by C20 wooden eaves
board. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced end stack to
right; end stack to left removed. Gable ends have wrought-iron initials
"W E" to left, and figures "7 4" to right. Right return, rear wing, has 12-
pane sliding sash to ground floor beneath segmental arch, unequal 9-pane
first-floor sashes with lintels at eaves level. Left return has
unsympathetic C20 casements to front range and rear wing, 2-pane sliding
sash to single-storey single-window rear addition. Rear wing has stepped
and dentilled brick eaves cornice, stone-coped gable with shaped kneeler,
end stack. Interior: open-well staircase with ramped moulded handrail,
balustrade boxed-in: not fully investigated. Empty and unoccupied at time
of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SK7489099933

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320509

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)