Wooley Farmhouse

Wooley Farmhouse is a house that likely dates back to the early 16th century, with a 17th-century extension and later alterations. It is constructed of rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof, along with stone gable and ridge stacks. The building has a linear plan and originally included a through-passage entry, suggesting it may have been a longhouse.

The farmhouse is one storey with an attic, and two storeys to the right of the door. There is a 20th-century door located left of centre, which has renewed chamfered jambs and a weathered lintel that is said to have once displayed the date '1611'. To the left of the door, there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor and a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window in the attic. To the right of the door, there is a nine-pane fixed stair window in a chamfered surround. A former door, which has a chamfered surround and a flattened triangular head cut into a monolithic lintel, has been blocked, with a 20th-century window inserted in its place. There is also one ground floor 20th-century window and two additional windows above.

To the left, there is a slightly set-back 17th-century extension that has a 20th-century window on the ground floor. The left return features a blocked first-floor loop and a corbel for an earlier chimney. The right gable is rendered and has an altered ground floor door. The rear elevation has a blocked doorway with a window inserted, similar to the front, and various blocked openings, including byre ventilation loops to the left of the door.

The interior has been significantly altered, but it retains a good quality five-bay roof with principal-rafter trusses and collars, stone slates secured with sheep bones, and some evidence of a former stack to the left of the through passage. This farmhouse is likely the earliest surviving domestic building in Allendale.