Wells Bottom Farmhouse

Wells Bottom Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with plaster infill, and the right-hand bay is tile-hung on a concrete-rendered plinth, while the ground floor is rendered. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has two storeys. The original structure consists of two timber-framed bays, with a third bay added to the right. There is a 20th-century front conservatory and a rear outshut, which are not of special interest.

The entrance elevation features an overhanging first floor with the earliest tile-hanging. A 20th-century hipped-roofed porch with a boarded door is located between the right-hand bays, and there is a 20th-century door to the right bay, which is obscured by the conservatory. The windows are late 20th-century leaded PVC, with two lights in the left bay, three lights in the center, and one and two lights on the first floor of the right bay. The roof has a half-hipped design with a cross-ridge brick stack situated between the right-hand bays.

At the rear, there is an early 20th-century three-light window in the center, with mid to late 20th-century windows of two and one lights above, and two lights to the right on the ground floor. The left return has an early 20th-century four-pane window on the ground floor and a two-light window above, both with tile pentices. The right return features a three-light window on each floor.

Inside, the timber framing in the two left-hand bays includes a sole plate, posts, and studs that form wide panels, along with a mid-rail, curved tension braces at the left end, an eaves plate, vertical posts in the left gable, tie-beams, and collared, bridle-jointed rafters. On the ground floor, there is evidence of a former partition between the bays, indicated by mortices in the soffit of the cross-beam; the spine beams have run-out chamfers, and there are pegged joists. An inglenook fireplace features a chamfered timber bressumer and a rubblestone stack, with a former window positioned in the rear right corner of the larger room. A later partition on the first floor presumably replaced an earlier one, as it continues as a lath and plaster partition. The roof over the left-hand bays has collared rafters.