Wingstone Farmhouse

Wingstone Farmhouse is a mid-19th century farmhouse with earlier fabric incorporated into the rear wing. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed granite rubble walls with dressed quoins and window arches. The rear wing is of rendered granite rubble. It has granite gable-end chimneys with drip-courses and a dry slate roof with gable ends.

The front block is arranged with one room on either side of a central stair-hall, and small service rooms at the rear, creating a double-depth plan. A wide kitchen wing is located at the rear of the left-hand end, potentially retaining fabric from an earlier house.

The symmetrical three-window south-east front features large two-light casement windows and French windows, all with segmental arched openings. The central doorway has a plastered surround with ashlar joint-lining and a glazed door with flush panels. A verandah runs along the front of the house, featuring reeded and chamfered slender timber posts and a slate lean-to roof with a carved plastered soffit. Later roof lights have been added over the ground-floor windows. A stair window is present at the rear, with margin panes. A wide gable-ended wing extends at the rear with a large projecting end stack.

The interior of the front block contains an open-well staircase with turned newels, stick balusters, and a moulded mahogany handrail ramped to the newels, dating from the 1820s. Six-panel doors remain, although they have been altered with the addition of glazing. The main room of the rear wing contains a large open fireplace with a roughly chamfered wooden lintel and granite jambs. An adjoining, smaller secondary hearth is at the same height, sharing the main hearth's right-hand granite jamb and featuring a probably re-used hollow chamfered granite jamb to the left. This secondary hearth has a separate flue, and a wide groove is present at the same height as the jambs, as if to accommodate a thick shelf. This hearth may have been used for smoking bacon or as a cream or slow-cooking oven, the shelf beneath a small fire.

Between 1904 and 1919, the novelist John Galsworthy stayed at Wingstone Farmhouse, and some of his "Forsyte Saga" novels were written during this time.