Wakelyns Farmhouse

Wakelyns Farmhouse is a manor farmhouse dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed and has a late 19th-century red brick casing, except for the rear wall which is plastered. The roof is covered with glazed black pantiles. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. There are three windows featuring large-paned casements with whitewashed flat arches. The right gable end includes a gabled brick porch with a half-glazed door. Inside, most of the timber frame is concealed, but notable features include a hall bridging beam and a girding beam against the cross-passage, both with unusual stop-chamfers shaped like raised arrowheads pointing towards the centre of the room. There is an original hall doorway with leaf-carved spandrels and a blocked cross-passage doorway with an arched head in the rear wall. The staircase is a newel type. Although the rafters have been altered, the main roof structure, which includes clasped purlins, remains intact.