Wonton Farmhouse

Wonton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the early 16th century, with a floored hall stack added in the late 16th or early 17th century. A kitchen wing was constructed in the 17th century, and the lower end was rebuilt in the mid-19th century. The building is made of stuccoed stone rubble and possibly cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gabled ends. The roof is more steeply pitched over the hall and higher end, while the lower end has a flatter pitch and a projecting gable at the front with openwork wavy bargeboards.

There is a rendered axial chimney stack at the back of the former cross or through passage, a rendered stack with set-offs at the higher gable end on the left, and another stack with set-off at the gable end of the rear kitchen wing. Originally, the farmhouse had a three-room layout with a through or cross passage, an open hall that was floored with the hall stack added in the late 16th or 17th century, and the kitchen wing added at the rear of the hall in the 17th century. The lower end was completely rebuilt around the 1850s when the cross passage was widened into a stair hall.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a five-window range, where the hall bay is recessed. The windows are later 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, and there is a 19th-century splayed bay window on the lower end projection. A glazed door leads to the stair hall cross passage to the right of centre, and glazed double doors open into the hall on the left. The gable at the higher end has a large 20th-century buttress feature that rises above the roof level, while the lower end has a single-storey 20th-century lean-to extension.

Inside, there are four roof trusses with straight principals that are morticed at the apices and morticed for collars, which have been replaced by later lap-jointed collars. The threaded purlins show that three of the trusses and purlins are very lightly smoke-blackened, and two probably reused rafters are more heavily smoke-blackened. The trusses have carpenter's marks. The later stairs are in the position of the original newel stairs, which has a post with a cracked top in the place of the newel. The hall ceiling beams are plastered over, with some plaster removed to expose chamfered joints with straight cut stops. The hall fireplace is blocked and features a Victorian chimney-piece.