Winestead Farmhouse

Farmhouse built in 1856 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners. A north wing was removed in the 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of red-brown brick in Flemish bond with black and orange brick dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It has an irregular plan.

The west entrance front has three first-floor windows and an asymmetrical design. A projecting gabled section is to the right, with a lower, narrower, full-height gabled porch adjoining on the left. The section to the left is set back. A chamfered plinth runs along the base. The porch has a flush buttress with tumbled-in brick to the offsets, leading to two steps and a board door with strap hinges in a chamfered reveal, beneath an open timber porch with chamfered square piers and a gabled roof with a segmental-pointed arch-brace. A narrow eight-pane sash window is to the right of the door. At first-floor level is a recessed panel in the chamfered segmental-pointed reveal, containing a polygonal relief panel bearing a crown, royal cypher and date. There is a twelve-pane sash window and black brick decoration to the gable. To the right of the porch, a single twelve-pane ground- and first-floor sash window is present, with black brick diaper decoration. Stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick, and black brick ornament are visible on the gables. The left return of the porch features a small ground-floor and a larger first-floor twelve-pane sash window. The set-back section to the left has single twelve-pane sashes to each floor, stepped eaves, and tumbled-in brick to the gable, with a half-hipped roof.

The right return forms the south front and includes two first-floor windows. A projecting gabled section to the right has single twelve-pane sashes to each floor, black brick cross motifs, and a decorative flush brick round panel to the gable. A single-storey section adjoining to the left has a chamfered corner, corbelled-out above, a sixteen-pane sash window beneath a segmental arch, and a roof hipped to the left. A section set back to the left has a twelve-pane first-floor sash window beneath a gable. A large brick ridge stack is visible. The east front features similar twelve-pane sashes with segmental and pointed relieving arches, a pair of first-floor sashes beneath raised eaves, a half-hipped roof to a projecting wing, and a board door to a single-storey wing to the right.

Most windows have sills, segmental orange brick arches, and pointed relieving arches above flush panels with herringbone brick infill. Inside, the staircase has a closed string, moulded handrail, a chamfered newel post, and Gothick-style splat balusters with pierced hexagons. Panelled doors are set within architraves. This is one of a series of mid-19th century Crown estate buildings designed by Teulon.