Wefan House

This is a house dating to around 1600, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is a timber-framed building, now plastered, with a roof covered in a mix of handmade and machine-made red plain tiles. The house has five bays facing north, with a central chimney stack creating a lobby entrance, and extends to the rear forming a T-plan. A 20th-century extension lies beyond, and a 19th-century wing extends to the rear left.

The ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with sixteen panes of crown glass. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with four and eight panes, and a single window with three and six panes over the front door, all featuring crown glass. The front door is a simple six-panel design from the early 19th century, with the bottom panels flush, the middle panels moulded, and the top panels glazed, set within a doorcase topped with a simple moulded canopy, and one stone step. The roof tiles on the main range are all handmade; those on the rear right range are a mix of handmade and machine-made tiles.

The house retains original timber frame features including unjowled posts, straight bracing in the walls, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. The interior reveals two chamfered binding beams with lamb's tongue stops (some missing), and plain joists of vertical section. A wood-burning hearth with chamfered jambs and a depressed arch is present in the left ground-floor room, plastered. The right ground-floor room has a wood-burning hearth with a replaced mantel beam. A wood-burning hearth with chamfered jambs and a depressed arch is present in the left upper room, where plaster has been removed to reveal the original timber, and a moulded timber has been added. The right upper room has a late 19th-century cast iron grate. The roof is a clasped purlin construction with arched wind-braces, incorporating introduced softwood. The rear wing appears to be original and contains one chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section; the rear ground-floor studding has been removed. An introduced 14th or 15th-century cross-quadrate crownpost with altered rising braces is mounted on the rear wallplate of the main range at the junction. There are some plain battened pine doors and hinges, dating to the 18th or early 19th century, and one introduced door incorporating reused 19th-century linenfold panelling.