Woden Croft

HUNDERTHWAITE B6277 NZ 02 SW (East side, off) 11/69 Woden Croft II House, formerly a private academy run by Edward Simpson. Dated 1792 (on front door lintel) with additions dated 1810 (on rear door lintel) and later C19 rear additions. Dressed sandstone. Stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. Main block with set-back wing attached to right.

2-storey main block. Originally 5 bays with projecting 3-bay centre; left bay demolished in early C20. 3-bay centre has flush quoins and central partly- glazed 4-panel door in flush surround; door lintel inscribed ENS 1792. Doorway flanked by 6-pane casments with flush sills and wedge lintels. 3 identical windows above. Right bay has flush quoins; canted bay window; tripartite window above with similar casements. Roof, hipped over right bay, has coped left gable. 2 ridge stacks with top bands and water tables.

2-storey, one-bay wing has flush quoins. 2-light windows, with similar casements, to both floors. Low-pitched hipped roof. Tall lateral stack, above right return, with top band and water table. Remains of semicircular-plan bread oven to rear of right return.

Altered interior: dogleg staircase, of 2 flights plus landing rail, with moulded ramped handrail on thin turned balusters. Several imported 2-panel doors, with butterfly hinges, in architraves.

Glazed late C20 conservatory, attached to left return, is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ0080120764