Wheatlands Farmhouse

Wheatlands Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, potentially incorporating an earlier core, with additions and alterations from the mid to late 19th century and minor late 20th-century changes. The walls are mostly rendered cob on a stone rubble plinth, with 19th-century uncoursed stone rubble additions. Red brick dressings feature around the openings. The left-hand gable end was rebuilt in the 20th century using concrete blockwork. The roof is gabled and covered in 20th-century slate, having been thatched in the past. Welsh slate roofs cover the 19th-century porches. Rendered stacks punctuate the roofline.

The original plan was a three-room and cross-passage layout, facing southwest. The ground slopes to the right. The main hall has an axial stack to the left, backing onto what was the former cross passage (now the kitchen) and a service room (now the dairy) to the left. A former inner room is to the right, with an external lateral stack to the rear. A small store room (possibly a former shippon) with a room above was added to the left-hand end, likely in the late 19th century. A large porch was added to the cross passage (now the kitchen) entrance in the mid to late 19th century, and a smaller porch was added to the hall at the same time; the hall entrance is likely also a late 19th-century alteration. The eaves were raised at some point, possibly in the 17th century if the house incorporates an earlier core. A winder staircase is located to the side of the hall stack, and a lean-to outshut at the rear of the hall and inner room was probably added in the 18th century. The left-hand gable end wall was rebuilt in the late 20th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a one-storey lean-to addition. The front facade has an asymmetrical two-window arrangement; a 20th-century two-light wooden casement is on the first floor to the left, a 19th-century three-light wooden casement to the right, and a 20th-century two-light casement lighting the hall on the ground floor. To the left is an 18th-century three-light wooden casement with square-headed and wrought iron barred openings. A glazed door sits between the first and second windows from the left. The porch has a boarded door with a rectangular overlight, a brick segmental head, and a two-light wooden casement with a segmental head to the right. A half-glazed door is on the right; this porch also has a half-glazed door and a margin light casement with a segmental brick head. A 20th-century boarded door is in the left-hand gable end.

Inside, the hall has a 20th-century ceiling. The winder staircase is to the left of the fireplace, which has a lath and plaster smoke hood according to a report from 1987. A roughly-chamfered cross beam is in the right-hand ground floor room. The service room (latterly a dairy) has slate shelves. The probable former shippon on the ground floor of the left-hand end has a cobbled floor with a central path. The roof features 17th-century trusses with straight principals and collars.