Wiltown Farmhouse

Wiltown Farmhouse is a 16th-century through-passage house that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is believed to have originally been constructed of cob, with later rebuilds in stone and brick, now rendered, and is covered by a slate roof. The house and associated outbuildings are arranged around a loose courtyard, with the house aligned roughly north-south.

The eastern, entrance elevation has a largely 19th-century appearance, dominated by a central timber door with a glazed upper section and margin lights, set under a slate-roofed canopy. Flanking the door are tall, modern uPVC windows set in brick surrounds with cambered heads and quoin detailing. The walls are modern, rendered, and the roof is slate, with two brick stacks on the ridge. An outbuilding, now incorporated into the house, projects from the northern end.

The western elevation is divided into four bays, with the northern two bays projecting further, possibly indicating the line of the original building. A lean-to enclosed veranda runs along the southern part of this elevation.

The main entrance opens into what is likely the original through-passage, now with a 19th-century quarry tiled floor. To the south, the former service end, thought to have been rebuilt in the 19th century, contains a large room with a timber fire surround, painted to resemble marble, picture rail, and a four-panelled timber door. To the north of the passage is a hall with remains of a substantial 16th-century ceiling with intersecting beams forming two panels; the principal beams have deep composite mouldings, and the secondary members are mostly replaced, retaining original mortice holes. This room has a large fireplace with a chamfered lintel, and evidence of a former oven. Below the adjacent modern staircase, there is possible evidence of an earlier winder stair. The northern room has plain chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

The upper floor retains some 19th-century doors and a fire surround but is otherwise largely plain. The floor level is believed to have been raised at the northern end of the building, with the upper sections of the walls likely rebuilt in the 19th century. In the roof space, the upper section of the chimney stack exhibits evidence of an earlier roof line, approximately one foot below the present roof. The roof structure itself has been replaced.