13 Weech Road and former gig house

13 Weech Road and former gig house

A substantial farmhouse with attached outbuildings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The main house is constructed in a T-shaped plan, with a western range built of cob on tall limestone footings and rendered, and an eastern range of randomly coursed local limestone. The western range is covered with an asbestos cement slate roof, while the eastern range has a natural slate roof. Both ranges feature limestone and brick chimney stacks.

The western range is now subdivided into six rooms arranged around a corridor along its north wall. A central stair tower, originally aligned with the former entrance hall on the building's north side, is now partially enclosed within a two-storey lean-to extension. The eastern range contains three rooms, with the central room being the former entrance hall. A stable and gig house with rectangular plan stands to the north-east of the main house.

The south elevation of the western range displays seven bays across two storeys, with three rebuilt dormers lighting the attic storey. The bays are defined by thirteen mullion and transom windows. The central ground floor bay contains a 20th-century metal-framed window occupying the position of the former southern entrance. The three-storey south gable of the eastern range is constructed of randomly coursed limestone with French doors to the ground floor and mullion and transom windows above. The east elevation of the eastern wing comprises five bays across two storeys with attic. Two dormers are partly set within the eaves of the slate roof. The ground floor has blind openings except for the third bay, which contains the main entrance. The first floor has three mullion and transom windows, with the southernmost opening blind. A large double chimney stack projects forward from the penultimate southern bay. The north gable of the eastern wing is blank, while the right return has a large opening at ground floor and a two-light window to the attic. The north elevation of the western range shows both timber and metal-framed casements relating to the lean-to addition; ground floor openings are boarded over. A mullion and transom window has been inserted within the external stack at first floor, and a large 20th-century opening exists at the right-hand end of the range at ground floor level.

Internally, the western range retains windows on the south elevation of both floors with their original linings and raised and fielded panel shutters, many fitted with wrought iron H-hinges. A blocked fireplace with substantial timber bressumer is visible within the spine corridor. The stair on the north side retains scrolled tread ends, though its rail, balusters and one newel post have been removed. The early roof structure survives, including collared trusses, purlins and hip rafters, though the roof has been remodelled and rafters replaced. The eastern range retains original door and window carpentry and plaster cornice detail to the ground floor south room. Its roof is of king post construction with supporting purlins and rafters.

The stable and gig house is constructed of rendered cob under a double Roman tile roof, standing one and a half storeys high across three bays. The south elevation features a large opening in the left-hand bay, formerly used for storing the gig, with two doorways to its right. The east return has wooden pegged window frames retaining some glazing at both ground and upper floors. The north (roadside) elevation has an off-centre taking-in door, and the west gable end contains a window in the roof apex. Internally, the eastern two-thirds formerly housed stables while the western third served as a bay for a coach or gig. The interior retains some 17th and 18th-century roof carpentry, including two chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops.