Wells Farmhouse

Wells Farmhouse is a house dating to the early 17th century, with later additions in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The original house comprises a three-bay main range facing south, featuring a central chimney stack. Originally of lobby-entrance plan, the entrance has since been blocked. An original wing is located to the rear of the left-hand bay, with a 20th-century wing adjacent, and a 20th-century outshut at the rear of the right-hand bay, forming a catslide roof. There are two single-storey 20th-century extensions with hipped roofs to the right. The house has two storeys, with originally floored attics. The front elevation has a three-window range of 20th-century casement windows. A 20th-century door is set into the right side of the building. The main roof is hipped. The roof features accurately repaired grouped diagonal shafts, dating to 1988.

The interior retains unjowled posts, heavy studding, and primary straight bracing. It contains chamfered axial beams and plain joists of a vertical section above all original rooms on the ground and first floors. The roof is a clasped purlin structure, with the hips being a later alteration. There are two wide wood-burning hearths on the ground floor, each with 0.33-metre jambs, and an incomplete bread oven sits in front of the stack. Original hearths are believed to have been present on the first floor, but are now blocked and concealed by plaster.