Wadstray House

Wadstray House is a small country house dating to circa 1800, with extensions added in the early 20th century. It is constructed of rendered stone with a slate hipped roof and a modillion eaves cornice. A tall rendered stack is located on the left, and there are lateral stacks at the rear. The house has a double-depth plan with two principal rooms at the front and a central entrance hall. A third principal room is situated behind the right-hand room, and the kitchen is behind the stairwell. In the early 20th century, a one-room plan extension was built on the left side of the house, and a verandah was added across the front.

The south front has two storeys and a 1:3 window arrangement. The left-hand bay is the early 20th-century addition. The symmetrical three-window arrangement to the right has two two-storey bows of three lights, with bowed sash windows; the first-floor sashes have been replaced, and the ground-floor central sashes of each bow replaced by a French window. The central first-floor sash is also a 20th-century replacement. The central doorway has a good arcade with Tuscan engaged columns and an open pediment with a semi-circular traceried fanlight and panelled reveals; the glazed door is 20th century. The later extension to the left has a French window on the ground floor and a 12-pane sash above. A circa early 20th-century verandah is situated across the whole of the front, supported by wooden posts. The rear and side elevations were not inspected.

Inside, most of the original joinery appears to be intact, including panelled doors, and the moulded plaster cornices remain in most rooms and the hall. The hall has a limestone-paved floor and features an elliptical arch and screen with a semi-circular traceried fanlight. The open-well staircase has a moulded mahogany handrail ramped up to column newels and wreathed over the curtail newel, with cut tread ends to the open string. The front right-hand room has a moulded cornice and a carved wooden chimneypiece with console brackets – possibly on a 20th-century replacement. The smaller front left-hand room has a 20th-century chimneypiece and is lined in late 20th-century bookshelves, but the moulded cornice survives behind. The rear right-hand room has a chimneypiece with an eared architrave and a dentilled cornice.