Wheelwrights

Wheelwrights is a house dating from the 17th century, located on the west side of High Street in Widford village. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring decorative chevron pargetting in panels on the front. The northern side is weatherboarded and jettied, while the southern end has a modern colourwashed brick wall. The house has a gabled thatched roof with four eyebrow dormers along the front wallhead. It is a long one and a half storeys tall, facing east, with a central chimney positioned one third from the southern end. There are six windows and a door that is off-centre to the north. The entrance features a flat-topped arcaded timber porch in the Jacobean style. The windows are wooden mullions with two and three lights, rectangular leaded glazing, and iron casements, along with two-light dormer windows. The door is made of planks with moulded battens and heart-shaped holes in line. This historic timber-framed house is part of the High Street group in the middle of the Conservation Area.