Wakelands Farmhouse

Wakelands Farmhouse is an early 16th-century hall house that has been altered in the 17th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plaster and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building has a two-bay hall oriented approximately north-south, with an integral service end to the south, which was likely originally unstoreyed. To the north, there is a three-bay parlour or solar crosswing that jetties to the west. An axial chimney stack was inserted in the south bay of the hall in two stages, both before and after 1600, while an external chimney stack was added to the north of the crosswing in the early 17th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. The west elevation, which was originally the front but now faces into the farmyard, has a plain door and three 20th-century casement windows, along with four plain brackets that are partly exposed below the jetty. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows, one of which is set in a gabled dormer. The posts were originally jowled, although some jowls have been cut back over time.

Inside, the ground floor of the crosswing is partitioned into two bays, with a binding beam in the larger room featuring double ogee mouldings and converging stops, while the other is plain-chamfered. An inserted floor in the north bay of the hall, dating to around 1600, has a transverse beam that is plain-chamfered with a lamb's tongue stop, while the axial beam is unchamfered, and the joists are plastered to the soffits. An inserted floor in the south (service) bay, from the 18th century, has an axial beam that is plain-chamfered with plain stops, and the joists are unchamfered. The original rebated floorboards remain over the hall. The west wallplate features an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. Heavily smoke-blackened rafters in the south bay of the hall suggest the presence of a smoke bay or timber-framed chimney before the current brick chimney was added. Both roofs have been rebuilt; they were originally of crownpost construction and are now in clasped purlin form. The central tiebeam of the hall has been severed to create a doorway. The alterations made in the 20th century are superficial.