Well Farmhouse

Well Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a concrete tile roof and features ashlar stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the entrance leading into a screens passage located in the internal corner of the L, while the principal rooms are situated to the left, overlooking Painswick Valley.

The front of the farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has twin Cotswold gables positioned high above the eaves, featuring saddle-back coping and scrolled kneelers. The main end gables are also coped. Each front gable includes a 3-light casement window on both the ground and first floors, and a 2-light casement in the attic, all set within recessed chamfer stone mullions and topped with stopped hoods. The facade is raised on a plinth with a moulded top.

On the right side, there are two small stair lights in a plain gable that supports two diagonal shafts on a skirted square base. Adjacent to this is a set-back wing that has two storeys and an attic, with a total of two windows: a 3-light window on the ground floor and a 2-light and a 3-light window on the first floor, all matching the main front. There are also two 2-light gabled dormers.

The ground floor on the left features a 20th-century door set deep in the reveals, with a moulded surround that is stopped at half-height and topped with a cornice on consoles, which has low relief carved decoration. The left return from the front has a 1 + 1 window arrangement, with an additional 19th-century 2-light window above the door on the far left. The main gable on the right has windows similar to those on the front, while to its left there is a 2-light recessed chamfer casement with a hood on both the ground and first floors.

There is also a further one-and-a-half storey 19th-century wing to the left, featuring a central gable. Inside, the farmhouse contains a panel and muntin screen in the passage, a spiral staircase, and some wide early floorboards. The ground floor fireplace, located in the right back wing, has a cornice. The roof is a four-bay A-frame, and where the wing connects to the front block, there is a timber-framed partition in the roof space. The right side of the front block has a large moulded and stopped deep plain lintel over the fireplace, which has a slight camber. There is also a stone spiral staircase leading to the first floor, chamfered stopped beams, and remnants of a fireplace and bread oven.