House At Wollaston Farm

This is a farmhouse dating to the mid-17th century, with significant alterations and additions made in the mid-18th century, late 18th century, and 19th century. The construction is timber framing with brick nogging, alongside coursed and random rubble walls, brick quoins, and brick dressings. The roof is covered in Welsh slate. The building features a central ridge stack with square flues and pilaster strips, along with a single gable and ridge stack. There are dentillated brick eaves, and the external joinery from the 20th century largely replicates 19th-century casements. The farmhouse is two stories high, with a seven-window front.

The north-facing entrance front includes a timber-framed, single-story, three-bay lean-to addition. It has a recessed 20th-century door flanked by single windows, with a half-glazed 20th-century door in the return. The original range has a single window to the left, a door and window to the right. Above, there are three small lights in the eaves, flanked by single windows. The south front has an off-center French window, flanked to the left by two 2-light windows and to the right by a large 3-light window, followed by three 2-light windows; all openings have segmental heads. A single-story, 19th-century lean-to addition with two windows is on the right side. Above, there are five 2-light windows with small lights between the first/second and third/fourth windows. The east gable is rendered and features a 3-light window. The west end has a single-story, 19th-century addition containing two doors in the gable, a single window to the north, and two windows to the south.

The interior includes an entrance lobby with a blocked internal doorway and a round window. The central fireplace has been largely rebuilt in the late 20th century. Ground floor rooms east of the stack are combined, showcasing chamfered spine beams carried on an inserted post, and exposed joists. A 19th-century fireplace is in the east gable. West of the stack, there are chamfered span beams and stop-chamfered joists. Box framing with rendered nogging is exposed on both sides of the north wall and in a cross wall. The north lean-to has an 18th-century stair and landing with a square newel and partially renewed balustrade. Adjoining the stair is a timber-framed enclosure containing a brick winder stair to the cellar. Part of the ground floor framing has been cut away to enlarge the lean-to. On the first floor, box framing with rendered nogging is exposed in the north wall, as is the cross wall framing, along with the principal rafters and struts of the original single-purlin roof. There are two 18th-century plank doors.