Well Farmhouse

Farmhouse. It dates to around the mid-17th century, with alterations and extensions in the late 18th century, the early 20th century, and the late 20th century. The exterior is dressed slate rubble with a steeply pitched asbestos tile half-hipped roof, and rendered axial stacks.

The original 17th-century core comprises the two front rooms and a central cross-passage; the smaller right-hand room, originally a parlour and heated by a gable end stack, and the larger left-hand room, the kitchen, heated by a large lateral stack at the rear. The front of the house was remodelled in the late 18th century, and it was extended at the rear with two small rooms, including a dairy to the left of the parlour, which has an external doorway on the right-hand side. A single-storey kitchen wing was added to the left-hand side in the early 20th century, and later single-storey extensions were built at the rear.

The south front has an almost symmetrical two-window facade, with a stone string course at first-floor level. The ground floor has two 18th- or early 19th-century 16-panel sash windows in segmented stone arch openings with keystones. The first floor has three 18th-century window openings with 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. All front windows have slate sills. A central doorway has a 20th-century flush panel and glazed double doors, and a 20th-century stone porch with a hipped roof. The left-hand west end has slate lathing (replaced with asbestos tiles), and set back from the front is a 20th-century single-storey kitchen extension, roughcast with a hipped asbestos tile roof and a three-light casement with glazing bars. The rear is rendered, with 20th-century single-storey extensions with flat roofs.

Inside, the front rooms feature exposed chamfered ceiling beams with run-out and step stops, and exposed joists. The front left-hand room contains an old bench, and the right-hand room has two china cupboards with shaped shelves. There are early 19th-century panelled doors on the ground floor. At the top of the stairs, a stick balustrade is present. On the first floor, there are a set of 18th-century fielded two-panel doors, fielded panel cupboard doors, and 18th-century plank and muntin partitions. The complete late 17th- or early 18th-century roof structure remains, featuring cambered cellar timbers lapped and pegged to the face of straight principals, morticed at the apexes, and trenched purlins. Common rafters are also intact.