Winestead Grange Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built in the mid-to-late 18th century, with an addition from the mid-to-late 19th century and renovations in 1981. It is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and is arranged in an L-shape, comprising a three-room front and a contemporary outshut to the rear left, with a 19th-century outshut adjoining the angle. The building is two storeys with an attic, and has a symmetrical three-bay front on the right. Two stone steps lead to the entrance, which has a 20th-century doorcase featuring pilasters, fluted below and panelled above, supporting an entablature with guilloche fret ornament to the frieze and a modillioned cornice. A six-fielded-panel door and a fanlight are set within a panelled reveal. Flanking bays have 20-pane ground-floor sash windows with flush wooden architraves, sills, and segmental stretcher arches. To the left is a small single-light pantry window and a 16-pane sash in a similar surround. The first floor has 12-pane sashes to the second and fourth bays, and 20-pane sashes to the remaining bays, all with matching arches and reveals; all windows are 20th-century replacements. The building has a stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice, a modillioned gutter, and tumbled-in brick to the raised gables. There are axial and end stacks. The side returns have 12-pane sliding sashes set in the gables. The rear of the early section has a board door flanked by 12-pane flush sashes beneath segmental arches, and the 19th-century section has a chamfered segmental arched entrance with a recessed board door, and a small gabled dormer above. The 19th-century section also has 12-pane flush sashes beneath segmental stretcher arches. The interior contains an open well staircase with a corniced handrail, plain newels, and replacement plain balusters. A late 18th-century wooden chimney-piece is in the ground floor right room, featuring a fluted panel to the frieze and a dentilled cornice. There is also an original, dentilled wooden chimney-piece and an ornate duck's nest grate in the first-floor centre left room. Other features include fielded panel window shutters, reveals, and doors in architraves to the main rooms. Renovations uncovered wall paintings, now papered over, including imitation panelling with an ornate surround in the ground floor right room, and ornate scrolled foliage in a first-floor bedroom.