Wallaford Farmhouse

Wallaford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century. The hall was floored and a fireplace was inserted in the late 16th or early 17th century, and the lower end was rebuilt with a porch added in 1810. A datestone in the gable of the porch is inscribed "TW 1810". The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble and has an asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and rendered chimney stacks. It features a three-room plan with a through or cross-passage layout, originally having an open hall that was later floored, with a lateral stack built at the rear of the hall, which includes newel stairs. The lower end was completely rebuilt in 1810, with the through passage widened to accommodate the stairs and a two-storey porch added. There are later outshuts at the rear. The rebuilt lower end on the right is now two storeys with a lower pitched roof and a gabled porch that features a reused chamfered granite arch doorway and a datestone from 1840 in the gable. The left-hand higher end is one storey with an attic, two small gables, and a hipped roof porch at the angle with the 1840 porch. There are 20th-century easements with leaded panes. At the rear, there is a large lateral chimney stack that incorporates newel stairs with a gable above.

Inside, there is an unstopped chamfered ceiling beam in the hall, and it is said that a similar beam exists in the inner room. The lateral hall fireplace has a chamfered lintel with step stops. The wall between the hall and the inner room is plastered and may have originally included a timber screen. There is a solid wall between the hall and the passage. Early 19th-century stairs were inserted into the widened through passage to create a stair hall. The roof has five trusses over the hall and higher end, one of which is smoke-blackened and features morticed apices and collars. The threaded purlins are visible, with only one purlin seen at the rear of the lower end of the hall, which is also smoke-blackened. The trusses have been cut for a diagonal ridgepiece, which is missing, and the rafters are also missing.