Great Wadham Farmhouse

Great Wadham Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with an asbestos slate roof, gabled to the left and hipped to the right. A tall, front lateral stone rubble hall stack has offsets, while a second front lateral stack, which formerly heated an inner room, was demolished in the 20th century. A 20th-century rendered rear lateral stack serves the lower end.

The original plan comprised three rooms and a cross-passage containing the staircase, with the lower end to the right. A former outbuilding, likely originally a cider-house, was attached to the left and incorporated into the dwelling in the 20th century. A dairy outshot is located to the rear of the hall and inner room. A massive, solid partition wall on the lower side of the cross-passage indicates that the lower end was rebuilt in the 19th century. A blocked doorway at first-floor level, now enclosed by the dairy outshot, suggests an original stair turret, with the staircase later moved to its present location, probably during the 19th century when much of the joinery was replaced.

The front of the farmhouse has a 6-window range. Most windows are late 19th and 20th-century 2 and 3-light casements, with a 6-pane sash to the left and twin 6-pane sashes above the hall stack. A lean-to porch has a 20th-century door. A former front stack was demolished and rebuilt as a ground-floor bay window in the 20th century. A rear 2-light casement with square leaded panes to one light is likely from the 18th century.

Inside, the hall features two cross ceiling beams and an upper-end bressumer with deep, hollow step-stopped chamfers. A fireplace lintel has had moulding cut away, and the former bread oven has been removed. An old integral cupboard is in the upper-end wall. A 19th-century 6-panelled door separates the hall and cross-passage. The inner room has a chamfered axial ceiling beam with hollow-step stops. Ovolo-moulded fireplace lintels from the former inner room and chamber fireplaces have been reused as window lintels. Further interior features include a 19th-century window seat and wall bench. The former cider-house has a rough chamfered ceiling beam and an old staircase against the rear wall. A 6-panelled door leads to a chamber above the lower end. The roof structure over the lower end was replaced in the 20th century, but the hall and inner room have a high-quality 17th-century roof of three trusses, featuring heavy straight principals carrying two tiers of threaded purlins and ridge purlins, with typical 17th-century dovetail-style collars. One truss towards the lower end is closed with timber uprights grooved to take laths.