Wades Farm

Wades Farm is a hall house dating from the early 15th and 16th centuries, which has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries and is now divided into three cottages. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features a two-bay hall that is aligned approximately northwest-southeast and faces southwest, with a one-bay integral storeyed service end to the southeast. A late 16th-century chimney stack has been inserted in the southeast bay of the hall, along with an inserted floor in both bays. There is a late 16th-century parlour or solar crosswing to the northwest, which jetties to the southwest and has an external chimney stack on the northwest wall that was rebuilt around 1980. An extension to the southeast, approximately one metre long, dates from the 18th or 19th century and includes an internal chimney stack. There are also rear extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The hall range is one storey with attics, while the crosswing is two storeys.

The features of each cottage vary: No. 4, which is the crosswing, has a 20th-century boarded door, a restored 18th-century four-light window, an ovolo-moulded bressumer, three reproduction leaded windows on the first floor, and one 18th-century window in the attic with one wrought iron casement and two fixed lights, all with rectangular leading. No. 2, the middle section, has a 20th-century door, one 20th-century sash window, and another in a swept dormer. No. 1, at the southeast end, features a 20th-century boarded door, two 20th-century sash windows, and on the first floor, one 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window with 18 lights and one 20th-century casement window.

Inside, the hall block and crosswing have jowled posts and heavy studding. The hall retains an original rear doorway with a three-centred arched head and an unglazed window with two diamond mullions. The central tiebeam is steeply cambered with deep arched braces. The roof is of crownpost construction, featuring a central crownpost of cross-quadrate section with four arched braces, three of which remain and are heavily smoke-blackened. The crosswing has straight tension bracing trenched inside the studs. All posts and beams are plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. In the northwest wall, there are two blocked original windows with ovolo-moulded mullions.