Wellgrove Farmhouse

Wellgrove Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating to the late 17th and early 18th century, with subsequent refurbishment and enlargement in the early 20th century. The original house was timber-framed, but the ground floor walls are now underbuilt with Flemish bond red brick, featuring decorative burnt headers. The upper framing is clad with peg-tile. Later extensions were built in a matching style. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts are present, as is a peg-tile roof.

The house is planned on an irregular double-depth layout, facing southeast. The main front range has a three-room plan, with a larger parlour to the left and an adjoining unheated service room. The central entrance hall contains an early 20th-century staircase. Axial and gable-end stacks serve back-to-back fireplaces in the parlours. Service rooms are located to the rear, including a bakehouse and a probable former kitchen, both with rear stacks. The bakehouse, if not original, was likely an early addition.

The building is two storeys high, with attic space in the roof of the main block and bakehouse, which is partially obscured by a lean-to outshot.

The exterior has an irregular three-window front, largely featuring 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A large, full-height gabled canted bay window in Tudor style is located at the right end. Mullion-and-transom windows and a jettied gable with ornamental brackets and pendants are also present. The front doorway, situated left of centre, has an early 20th-century studded plank door behind a 20th-century monopitch porch. The main roof is gable-ended. The rear elevation has three gables, the smallest belonging to the bakehouse and rising around the chimneyshaft.

The late 17th/early 18th century timber-framed structure is well-preserved, featuring wall framing with slender studs and straight braces. An axial beam in the parlour has narrow chamfers with scroll stops, and the fireplace here has been rebuilt. The bakehouse fireplace is relatively small, constructed of brick with a plain oak lintel, and retains its original cast iron patterned fireback and wrought iron swivelling pot-hanger. The roofspace was not accessible during the survey but is said to be constructed like the staggered butt-purlin roof over the bakehouse.