South Wheatley Farmhouse West Of Settlement At South Wheatley

South Wheatley Farmhouse is a farmhouse located to the west of the settlement at South Wheatley. It dates from around the late 16th century, with possible earlier origins, and was extended in the late 19th century. The building features rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, along with a late 19th-century range of local stone rubble. The roof is slate, with gable ends on the earlier range and a hipped roof with deep eaves on the taller later range.

The original house has a three-room and cross or through passage plan. The hall is heated by a lateral stack at the front, while the inner room to the right is heated by an end stack. It is unclear if the lower end was heated. A thick cross wall separates the hall from the inner room, and there is a stair projection adjoining the inner room that provides access to the chamber above. The roof structure above the hall is likely from the early 17th century, although it may have been replaced. The low height of the house and the thick wall suggest that the hall may have originally been open to the roof.

In the late 19th century, the lower left end of the farmhouse was demolished and replaced with an overall 'L' shaped plan range, which likely includes three principal rooms. The hall of the earlier range became the kitchen, and the inner room was converted into a dairy.

The exterior features two storeys. The taller late 19th-century stone rubble range to the left has a regular three-window front with 20th-century PVC windows in earlier openings. The lower late 16th-century rendered range to the right has a projecting front lateral stack with a cloam oven projection and a 19th-century 20-pane sash window lighting the hall. The stair projection to the right is lit by a late 19th-century casement window.

Inside, the ceiling beams are obscured by later ceilings, and the hall fireplace is partly blocked. There is a 19th-century timber stair in the projection. The roof structure above the hall has not been fully inspected, but it appears to be from the early 17th century, featuring dovetail notched and lap-jointed collars.