Wellfield House

Wellfield House is a villa, originally built in the 18th century and with substantial additions dating to around 1900. The original section was constructed with white-painted stucco and a slate hipped roof with deep eaves. Later additions are of red brick to the southeast side. The northeast elevation, now the main entrance, retains the original appearance but with mostly blank windows. It is a two-storey, three-window facade with a square-headed recess in the centre, containing a plate glass sash window above a door set within a heavy, pedimented stucco doorcase. The door itself is five-panelled with glazed upper panels and an overlight. The doorcase has plain raised sides supporting a deep entablature with a pediment. Flanking the doorcase are blind arched niches with semi-circular backs and modern iron guards, each containing a statue. The upper floor’s outer bays have square-headed, blank openings with painted sills. Wide eaves are accentuated by modillion brackets, and a pair of tall, corniced brick stacks set close together are located centrally on the lower roof slope.

The northwest elevation is also two storeys with three windows, including a stair-light in the centre, and similar eaves. The fenestration has been altered; originally, the windows were four-pane timber sashes.

The southeast garden elevation presents two storeys and three windows, with a stuccoed central bay flanked by large, rectangular full-height red-brick gabled bays. A 20th-century porch with square, stone-clad pillars and glazed side panels, capped with a hipped slate lean-to roof, occupies the ground floor centre. Above the porch is a balcony from around 1900, featuring decorative rails and thin brackets supporting the overhanging roof eaves. The projecting bays on this side feature long, ground floor, paired plate-glass sashes with segmental-arched brick heads and paired arched brick hoodmoulds; single sashes are to the sides. The first-floor windows are similar but have square-headed tops under a continuous moulded timber lintel, set beneath tile-hung shallow gables with bargeboards matching the first-floor lintels and terracotta finials.

The rear wall, in painted stucco, features similar modillion eaves. A 20th-century outshut in matching painted stucco with a slate roof is attached in the angle of the northwest service wing, along with a large conservatory.

A two-storey, four-window service wing is located to the northwest, constructed in painted stucco with a slate roof and plain bargeboards. This wing has an irregular window arrangement with mainly four-pane horned timber sashes with flat heads, bracketed eaves, and cast iron rainwater goods.

Inside, a stucco hall arch is present. The main staircase features a 1900 boarded balustrade and stick balusters. Service stairs have a different design. The house has panelled doorcases and five-panelled doors, along with stucco cornices. An extensive cellar is mentioned as possibly being older than the main house, although it has not been inspected.