Wanderer'S Key

Wanderer's Key is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the mid-17th century, with a possible 18th-century addition and some alterations and additions made in the late 20th century. The building is rendered over cob and stone, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. There are brick stacks located at the right-hand end and an axial stack off-centre to the right.

The original 17th-century layout consists of two rooms, with the larger principal room on the right (the hall) that has an integral end stack. The central front entrance is at the left-hand end, with a staircase located in the left-hand rear corner. The smaller room on the left also has an end stack, which may have been added later. An 18th-century one-room addition is found on the left, with its own entrance at the front. The dividing wall between the two rooms of the 17th-century part was likely removed in the late 20th century.

The exterior features a nearly symmetrical four-window front, with late 20th-century two-light leaded wooden casements set in the original openings. There is a wide doorway between the first and second windows from the left, which has a wooden lintel and a late 20th-century half-glazed door, along with what is probably an old rendered lean-to porch. The interior of the right-hand ground-floor room has large joists spanning from front to back and a partly rebuilt 17th-century stone open fireplace on the right, which features a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. There is likely an 18th-century inserted stack in the central room, positioned at an angle. The roof space was not inspected, but the feet of substantial principal rafters are visible in the first-floor rooms. This house was formerly known as Hoopers Farmhouse and/or Town Farmhouse.