Wierton Hall Farm Cottage

House, originally a pair of cottages, now a house, dating back to the 15th century, with alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries, an early 19th-century addition, and a 19th-century facade. The building is timber framed and clad in tarred weatherboarding, topped with a plain tile roof. It comprises an open hall of two bays of unequal length, with timber-framed storeyed end bays built at right angles to the road. The right hall bay and front and rear of the shorter left hall bay were likely floored in the 16th century. This may have created a hearth area towards the center of the left hall bay on the ground floor, with the cross-passage retained behind it to the left. It is probable there was no access between the right hall bay and the left end bay on the first floor, with the left hall bay being partitioned off. A masonry stack was inserted across the cross-passage in the 17th century, situated behind a probable timber stack or smoke bay, and the left hall bay was opened up and re-floored at a slightly lower level. An early 19th-century addition of two timber-framed bays and a narrow central stack bay was built to the right, along with an integral rear lean-to. It has one and a half storeys, set on a rendered plinth. The roof is hipped, with a slightly lower ridge towards the right section. There are brick ridge stacks at the left end of the left hall bay and in the rear slope of the roof towards the right end. The fenestration is irregular, with four windows. There is a small gabled two-light eaves dormer towards the center of the hall, a flat-roofed two-light through dormer to the right end bay, and two flat-roofed three-light and top-light through dormers to the right addition. A ribbed door is located towards the left end, and there is a blocked doorway under the stack. A rear lean-to extends from the right section. Internally, exposed framing is visible. An inserted cross-beam is located immediately to the right of the central truss, with two pegged posts beneath it indicating the probable width of the timber stack. Heavy-scantling arch-braces are present on the central truss. A four-light diamond mullion window is found on the ground floor of the former right gable end. The stack has a tall plain stone to each jamb, and a wooden bressumer. The roof is said to have sans-purlin collared common rafters.