Wheldon House

Wheldon House is a mid-18th century house located on Front Street in Ebchester. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with large quoins and features tooled ashlar dressings. It has a roof made of small graduated Lakeland slates, with stone gable copings on moulded kneelers and yellow brick chimneys. The house is two storeys high and has three windows. The central entrance features a renewed six-panel door set within a stone architrave. The plain sash windows, some of which contain old glass, have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The window to the right of the door has been restored after the removal of a 19th-century shop window. There are chimneys at both ends of the house, and the right side has a blocked loft opening on the first floor. At the rear, there is a full-width outshut beneath a catslide roof.

Inside, the original stair has been removed and replaced with a new stair in the outshut. The first-floor windows are fitted with panelled 18th-century shutters. The right room on the first floor features fielded panelling that forms the wall of the stair leading from the rear of the house to the loft, and the lower steps can be lifted on hinges for access to the space below. The rear of the house includes a basement on the left at a lower ground level, where old floor joists are visible along with a stone-flagged floor. From this area, three shallow steps in a curved recess lead to a blocked door that previously provided access to Chare Top Cottage. Throughout the house, there are wide floorboards. A 20th-century rear addition is not considered of interest.