Upper Wants End

Upper Wants End is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates back to the early 16th century and was originally an open hall house. In the 17th century, a chimney and floor were added, and it underwent restoration in the early 20th century. The building features an exposed timber frame with close-studding on the ground floor and plastered infill panels, topped with steep old red tile roofs.

The house is two storeys high and has three bays, facing east and set back in a yard. There is a lean-to extension on the south end and a framed catslide rear outshut on the north bay. The narrower middle bay and the north bay together formed the former hall, which was open to the roof. The south bay has been two storeys since the beginning and includes a closed truss with a partition on its north side.

In the 17th century, a large internal chimney was constructed in the hall, rising against the south face of the open truss. The floor was extended through the hall, and the south rooms were incorporated, resulting in a two-cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan house of two storeys. A passageway was cut through the chimney, likely in the 1920s.

The east front features two three-light flush casement leaded windows on each floor, along with a small two-light ovolo moulded window above the door. The large internal chimney has been rebuilt with corbelled tops. The north gable displays a complete frame with jowled posts, an unjowled middle post, a mid-height rail jointed in-line, an attic window, and two purlin ends. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped joists and beams in the north room, tension braces in the walls of the south bay at the first floor, and a hollow chamfered truss with curved braces supporting the open truss of the hall.