Wallcroft Farmhouse

WHEELTON VICTORIA STREET SD 62 SW 6/211 Wallcroft Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, now house. Later C17, altered and enlarged in late C18 or early C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with addition to front of 1st bay, lean-to additions to rear. Two and a half storeys; 2-storey addition to 1st bay has dressed long-and short quoins, one vertical rectangular window on each floor (each with plain surround); all openings in facade to right are alterations; doorway with plain surround next to addition, a 4-light casement to the middle bay, a square window to the 3rd and 2 similar windows above, all these in remains of former mullioned windows; patched masonry above the door; small dormer in the eaves. Left return wall has inter alia altered mullioned window on each floor; right gable has a 3-light attic window with chamfered flush mullions; rear mostly covered by additions but on each floor of 3rd bay is a 3-light window with cavetto mullions (lower covered by glazed porch). Interior the principal feature of interest is the framed newel staircase in the rear of the 3rd bay, which has a moulded string, panelled newels with ball finials and a pendant, open twisted balusters alternating with turned, and moulded handrail; elsewhere, housepart in 2nd bay has large inglenook with stone heck and chamfered bressumer, one lateral beam with stopped ovolo moulding; infilled collar roof truss with 2 pairs of purlins apparently raised on dorsals (suggesting formerly more steeply pitched roof); cellar beneath staircase now filled up, said to have connected with tunnel.

Listing NGR: SD6031721041