Woodhouse Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, it is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. The front elevation is symmetrically arranged with five bays. The central doorway features a 19th-century six-panelled door and a gabled timber porch. Ground floor windows on either side are 19th-century three-light casements with tile sills and flat-arched brick heads, appearing to replace earlier two-light casements. A band of three bricks, with the outer two rows projecting and the central row recessed, separates the ground and first floors. The five first-floor windows are two-light casements with 20th-century tile sills and flat-arched heads of gauged brick. The hipped roof has a chimney stack on the right side. A band of two bricks projects between the ground and first floors on the right-hand side. This side also has two 20th-century two-light casement windows at ground and first floor level, and two blocked, cambered-headed windows at the far right, the ground floor one now containing a reduced-height 20th-century cambered-headed window. The rear of the building features two projecting gabled wings with ashlar kneelers and coping. The right-hand gable has a 20th-century outshut at ground floor level with a two-light, cambered-headed casement window on the left, now wider due to a metal frame addition. A band of two bricks separates the floors, and a cross window is present on the first floor to the left. The left-hand gable end has a band between the floors and a two-light casement window. A passage or light well originally ran between the two wings; this was filled in during the 19th century to create an additional room on both the ground and first floors, each with a single-light window. The interior of the front ground floor rooms has panelled window seats and shutters, alongside eight six-panelled doors on the ground and first floors. The staircase has a cut string, turned balusters, column newel posts, and a swept and ramped moulded handrail. First floor rooms also contain panelled window seats, although some are 19th- or 20th-century replacements. A room on the right of the front has two fitted cupboards with arched-top, panelled doors. The back staircase has a moulded handrail and square newel posts, but 19th-century stick balusters. Five plank doors provide access to the attic.