Wool House

Wool House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with a boulder plinth, irregular quoins, and ashlar dressings. The roof is stone-flagged, featuring stone gable copings and chimneys made of brick and render. The building likely originally had a gable-entry plan and consists of two storeys with four bays, along with a one-storey, one-bay set-back extension on the left and a full-height rear stair wing.

The south elevation includes an early 20th-century gabled porch, which is flanked by the jambs of a blocked 17th-century window. The outer bays on both floors have late 19th-century sash windows with stone jambs, thin stone lintels, and sills. There are two blocked cross windows in the central first-floor bays where the mullions have been removed. The roof features cyma-moulded kneelers and banded chimneys, with the left end rendered and the right end having renewed brick on a rendered plinth. The left extension, likely a former porch, has a wide inserted window, and there is a front right boiler housing below a lintel that probably belonged to a former door. The returns of the house have 17th-century attic windows, with the right return being blocked, while the left return of the former porch has a boulder plinth. The gabled stair wing has four two-light windows with hollow chamfered surrounds, and there are mullions in two blocked windows to the right of the stair. Some windows have label moulds above them, and a small square window to the right has horizontal iron bars over stone beneath the stair.

Inside, the house features boxed-in beams and an open-well stair with shallow risers, renewed balusters, and chamfered newels (one of which has been renewed), complete with ball finials and turned pendants. There is a panelled cupboard in a blocked stair window and a renewed handrail. The roof contains three upper-cruck trusses, with the central truss supporting a lath and plaster partition, collars, and two levels of purlins, the lower resting on blocks and the upper being trenched.

A 20th-century rear porch in the inner return of the stair wing is not of interest.