Outer Weeke Farmhouse

Outer Weeke Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 17th century or earlier, significantly remodelled and extended around the early to mid 19th century.

The farmhouse is constructed of painted slate rubble with an asbestos tile roof featuring gabled ends and a hipped southwest corner. It has stone rubble lateral and gable end stacks, with short brick shafts.

The building's plan reflects a complex development. The two south rooms likely represent the original hall, with a lateral stack at the front, and an inner room with a gable end stack, forming part of a 17th or earlier three-room plan house. Part of the lower wall of this earlier house was probably removed in the 19th century when a kitchen wing was built behind the hall (northwest) with a gable end stack, and an unheated dairy was built behind the inner room (northeast). The eaves were raised, and the house was reoriented to face west. A small, single-story outbuilding was added to the north of the kitchen in the late 20th century.

The west front is asymmetrical, with two windows, featuring 20th-century sixteen-pane sashes, a 19th-century twenty-pane sash on the ground floor, and a doorway to the left of centre with a late 19th or early 20th-century glazed door. The north elevation has a lateral stack centrally, a 20th-century sixteen-pane sash on the first floor, and 20th-century casements on the ground floor, including a French casement on the right. The east elevation features a projecting gable end stack on the left with set-offs, 19th-century casements and sashes, two gables on the north elevation (the right-hand gable having projecting stacks), and 20th-century single-story outbuildings.

The interior largely consists of 20th-century joinery. The former inner room (southeast) retains a gable-end fireplace with a large slate lintel, now concealed by a 20th-century fireplace, and a chamfered half-beam in the end wall. The former hall has a fireplace with a chamfered cambered timber lintel and crossbeam, now boxed in. A 20th-century staircase is located in the former stair turret behind the hall. The kitchen contains what is probably a blocked smoking chamber or creak-oven to the right of the fireplace. The roof structure is of 20th-century construction.