Wisteria

Wisteria is a house dating to the late 16th or 17th century, with later additions. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the upper storey of the front roughcast and a projecting bay in the ground storey rendered. The roof is slate, with clay ridge tiles, while the projecting bay has a low-pitch corrugated-iron roof. The house has a red-brick chimney stack on the left-hand gable and a rendered stack on the rear gable of the rear wing.

The house has an L-shaped plan, with the front range comprising two ground-storey rooms and a through-passage between them. The rear wing originally contained one room, likely a kitchen. A lean-to was probably added behind the right-hand side of the front range. The front has two storeys and three windows. The doorway, slightly off-centre to the right, has an ovolo-moulded wood lintel, which is probably a re-used timber. The recessed door has a bead-moulded frame, three flush panels at the bottom, four sunk panels above (the top two now glazed), and a decorated cast-iron knocker. To the right of the doorway is a projecting, single-storeyed bay, likely a 19th-century addition, finished with a wooden frieze and cornice. This bay has one window facing the front and one in the left-hand side wall; both windows have two-paned wood sashes with horns. To the left of the doorway is a 20th-century 2-light casement window with three panes in each light, under a plain wood lintel. Second-storey windows are 19th-century 3-light wood casements, with the centre light of each opening on external strap-hinges. The two left-hand windows retain the remains of square leaded panes.

The yard at the rear has an old cobbled surface. The left-hand front room on the ground floor has a chamfered full beam and, against the left-hand gable, a chamfered half-beam, both with step-stops. The large fireplace in the left-hand gable, with a chamfered wood lintel and step-stops, incorporates a cloam oven, reconstituted from broken fragments, with its original cloam door intact. The right-hand front room has a small gable fireplace with a segmental brick arch. The room in the rear wing has a large fireplace with a plain wood lintel in the rear gable. The roof of the rear wing has plain principal rafters with collars pegged to the faces of the trusses, and the roof of the front range appears similar when viewed from a distance. The house forms a distinct group with Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Wistaria Cottages, which abut it on the north, and with Longlands opposite.