Wellbrook Manor

Wellbrook Manor is a farmhouse dating from the second half of the 14th century, with alterations made in the late 16th century and restoration in the 1920s. It features a timber frame with wattle-and-daub infill, although much of this has been replaced with rendered rubble, and it has a stone slate roof. The building is designed in a T-plan, originally an H-plan open hall house, with the service wing removed and the cross-passage filled by a late 16th-century chimney stack. The hall consists of two bays and a cross-passage, while the solar wing has at least three framed bays and includes a 14th-century stone chimney stack on the northeast wall. There are also 1920s extensions to the rear.

The southeast front of the manor has one storey with attics, featuring a gabled solar wing that projects to the right and a hall range to the left. The entrance is through a porch located at the angle with a lean-to roof. The attic is illuminated by two gabled dormers from the 1920s, and there is a three-light casement window to the left of the entrance. The solar wing has a three-light casement above a four-light casement. The 14th-century stack in the solar has an octagonal ashlar shaft with a crenellated top that has likely been restored.

Inside, the hall floor was inserted in the late 16th century, with brackets attached to the earlier framing, coinciding with the insertion of the stack in the cross-passage and the removal of the service wing. Upstairs, there is a spere truss to the southwest of the hall, a central base cruck truss, and a dais end truss of aisled construction. The upper roof features two raking struts that are cusped to the spere and base cruck. The dais truss has exposed square framing with cusped angle braces that create quatrefoils and trefoils, along with an ogee-headed door to the ground floor and cusped wind braces. The solar wing is less clear in its interpretation, with a ceiling at the level of the lower purlin. The 14th-century stack has a stone hood supported by decorative corbels, which have been reset 100 mm back from their original position, and the jambs are triangular in plan with a fillet at the apex. Wellbrook Manor is an exceptional example of a highly decorated hall house, featuring an original chimney stack, making it a rare survival.