Welland Farmhouse

Welland Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with volcanic rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The house has a three-room plan and faces south, featuring a projecting right (east) end stack and a large axial stack serving the central room. It has a lobby entry and is two storeys high. The front has an irregular arrangement of three windows, which includes a mix of late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, most of which have glazing bars. The door is located left of centre and is sheltered by a 20th-century hipped porch with a thatched roof and glazed sides. The end stack is made of exposed rubble, and the roof is hipped at both ends.

Inside, the farmhouse has seen little modernization. The left (west) and central rooms feature chamfered beams with late step stops, with the former being an axial beam and the latter a cross beam. All fireplaces are blocked, and the left room may have been unheated. There is no exposed carpentry in the right (east) room beyond a full-height cob crosswall, suggesting it may be an addition. The roof is inaccessible, but the lower sections of the principals indicate that the original A-frame truss roof may still be intact.