Wern

Wern is a 2-storey building of basic L-shaped plan built over a partial basement. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubblestone with traces of render, featuring slate cills and lintels to most windows and slate roofs with slate-coped verges.

The main range is dominated by 3 steeply-pitched gabled dormers breaking the eaves—one to the left and 2 to the right of a projecting gabled break. This break features a recessed 19th-century half-glazed door with a window above it. Below the right dormers are 2 further ground-floor windows. All windows are 19th-century multi-paned casements: those to the upper level have 2 lights, while ground-floor windows have 3 lights, with varying opening methods. An integral end stack to the right has slate drips and moulded capping, with a small ground-floor window to its right.

The right return of the front projecting range has a window similar to the ground-floor windows of the main range but modified to its lower part. The gable end features a boarded ground-floor door approached by a stone-walled ramp, beneath which is a boarded basement door. Above this is a 3-light first-floor window and an integral end stack with moulded capping. The left return has a flush gable end with an integral end stack and a horizontal sliding sash window above the ground-floor window, with remains of a dripstone. Directly above a cast-iron overshot water-wheel is a large 2-light window.

The rear of the main range has a lean-to on the left of a short projecting range with boarded double doors beneath a massive stone lintel. The projecting range itself has an integral end stack with a first-floor window to its left and a multi-paned 2-light ground-floor window to the right return. Along the back wall of the main range, the ground is cut away with rough stone steps providing access to the original basement doorway, which has voussoirs to a rebated segmental arch and a window to its right with a slightly curved stone lintel. Above this is a tripartite sash window and gabled half-dormer, with a small ground-floor window further to the right.

Internally, the main range comprises a hall with a parlour to the right and further rooms in the projecting ranges to front and rear. The parlour features a stop-chamfered cross beam with exposed joists and a re-opened wide fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel, with a square tile floor continuing into the hall. The hall has a stop-chamfered cross beam and joists, and a probably reset Jacobean staircase to the left wall with square newels, tall shaped finials and carved splat balusters. A cast-iron fireplace is located in a room accessed from the stair. The first floor has wide boards to the main range with lower parts of bolted A-frame trusses visible. A hatch between first and ground floors in the front projecting range is associated with the former milling operation in this part of the building.

The basement, which extends beneath the north-east end of the main range with a later continuation under the front projecting range, is divided into 3 rooms. It has a raised ceiling with sawn joists but retains a slate slab floor and traces of original stairs to the ground floor. A massive stack to the north-east wall has copper to its left, a bread oven to its right and a huge timber lintel. A small leaded window to the left wall of the basement extension contains original coloured glass.