Wheatfield House

Wheatfield House, formerly known as Wheatfield Lodge, is a house that has been converted into a hospice. It was built around 1855, with a rear extension added around 1900 by Thomas Butler Wilson, and further alterations and extensions were made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, topped with a slate roof. It stands two to three storeys high and has four bays, with a single-storey hospice range added to the east side in 1985.

The house is designed in the Italianate style. The south front features a central porch supported by Tuscan columns, an entablature, and a dentilled cornice. Above the porch is a square tower with an architrave and cornice over a first-floor window, along with three round-arched lights on the second floor, all capped by a shallow pyramidal roof. The left bay includes a canted bay window on the ground floor, paired and single-light windows on the first and second floors, and a shallow gable above. To the right, there are two narrow bays set back with plain windows. The eaves are deep, boxed, and bracketed, and there are tall corniced stacks at the centre and left.

At the rear, a projecting wing built over the boundary wall features a central three-light bowed window and round angle turrets, with a moulded string at the sill levels and egg-and-dart moulding along the former wall top. The eaves detailing matches that of the front.

Inside, the hall is notable for its marble Ionic columns that support a heavy entablature with a decorated frieze. The doorways have egg-and-dart mouldings on the architraves, adorned with pulvinated oak-leaf friezes and cornices. The marble open-well staircase features wrought-iron balusters and arcading on the landing supported by groups of four Tuscan columns. The stairwell ceiling is detailed with an entablature supported on consoles. The principal rooms include a probable dining room on the right, which has paired Ionic columns supporting entablatures along each side, niches at the end, and a plaster ceiling.