Woodhead Farmhouse

Woodhead Farmhouse is a house that was originally two dwellings, dating from the 17th century and altered over time. It is constructed of rubble with dressings and roughly-shaped quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof and featuring two brick stacks.

The south elevation is divided into two sections. The left part has two storeys and two bays, with lower windows that retain the lintels of three- and four-light mullioned windows. The upper windows, including a narrow one on the far right, have projecting brick sills. The roof is steeply pitched with end stacks. The left return displays a massive stepped stack, flanked at the attic level by narrow chamfered lights, one of which has an old iron bar.

The lower right part has two storeys and two bays, but is irregular in shape. On the far left, there is a renewed door in a chamfered surround with a flat-pointed head in a square frame, along with traces of a possible blocked doorway above. The lower windows include one that is part-slatted, with timber lintels and brick sills, while the upper windows are eight-pane Yorkshire sashes. The right return features a boarded door with a four-pane Yorkshire sash and a renewed four-pane sash with a timber lintel above.

Inside, the walls are 0.75 metres thick, and there are old collar-beam trusses. The eastern part of the house may be an unusually easterly bastle.