Ware Farmhouse And Adjoining Outbuildings To South East

Ware Farmhouse and adjoining outbuildings date from around the 16th century, with substantial remodelling in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled and hipped ends. It originally comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with a rear lateral hall and lower end stacks, later extended with rear outshuts. A restored chimney stack is located at the higher left-hand gable. The main farmhouse is a long five-window range with sash windows, many with glazing bars dating to the 18th or early 19th century. A hall window on the ground floor, centrally positioned, features wooden mullions and six narrow lights with leaded panes set within a cambered arch. A hipped roof porch covers the through-passage doorway to the right. An inserted late 18th to early 19th century flush panel door, set within a wooden lattice porch, is on the left-hand side. A probable smoking chamber is situated at the rear of the lower end, adjacent to the lateral stack, with a gabled roof and a tall, narrow opening featuring a carbelled roof with a flue.

The interior includes a round-arched granite doorway in the through-passage, rebeted to the door, leading to a lower service room and now providing access to the loft stairs, which are fitted with splat balusters. The hall has roughly-hewn ceiling beams and a blocked fireplace on the rear wall. An 18th-century stair hall was inserted into an inner room, incorporating a staircase and a side cupboard with a Chinese Chippendale openwork panel. The roof structure is of 18th-century design, with principals crossed and halved at the apex and side-pegged collars. The remains of one early truss survive over the lower end, displaying mortices for a collar and threaded purlins, with curved feet exposed in the room below.

A circa 18th-century dairy wing projects at the lower end, to the front right, with a loft above. It is constructed of stone rubble with an asbestos slate hipped roof and features an external staircase leading to a loft door. A lean-to is attached to the end wall, incorporating pigeon holes.