Wood House Farmhouse

Wood House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has undergone significant modifications. It is constructed from local stone rubble with some ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, along with stone chimney stacks. The building has a 'T'-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with a four-bay south elevation where the second bay is a projecting porch. The windows are 20th-century, metal-framed with rectangular leading, and have slightly voussoired segmental-arched heads. The projecting porch includes a gable topped with a ball finial and features a chamfered cambered-arched doorway beneath a large label with square stops that bear shields. Above the doorway is a three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window with a label. There are projecting wings at the rear of the farmhouse. The interior is not accessible as the building is unoccupied and owned by the Ministry of Defence as of January 1986. It is said to have been built by John Wyndham in 1637, using materials from the original Merrifield House, also known as Wadham Castle, which was a moated structure located about 1 kilometer to the west and was in ruins at the time.