Stainton Woodhouse Stainton Woodhouse Cottage

Stainton Woodhouse is a large farmhouse that has been subdivided and is partly unoccupied. The garden front dates from around 1800, while the rear wing is from the 18th century and was altered in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed magnesian limestone rubble, mostly rendered, and features Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs. It is two storeys high with a garden front that has a 2:1:2-bay arrangement and an entrance located in the left return. The altered wing at the rear has an irregular 18th-century wing at the rear-right corner, which is known as Stainton Woodhouse Cottage.

The garden front includes a plinth and has curved, two-storey, two-bay projections on either side of the central doorway, which is accessed by stone steps. The ground-floor openings retain tall, unequally-hung 15-pane sash windows. The first floor features sash windows with projecting sills and glazing bars. There is an eaves band, conically-roofed bays, and a hipped main roof with stone end stacks and a ridge stack located to the right of the center. The rear wing has a first-floor sash window with glazing bars in a projection beyond the right return, while the cottage on the right has 20th-century windows.

On the left return, the main entrance has three half-round steps leading to a double part-glazed door, which is topped by a stained-glass fanlight set in an architrave with an archivolt that features a keystone with a patera beneath a hoodmould. Above this door, there is a sash window with glazing bars. The interior of the garden-front range of the house was derelict at the time of resurvey in 1987 and was partitioned off from the rear wing. Some original features remain, including doorcases and both basket-arched and round-arch recesses. The farm buildings attached to Stainton Woodhouse Cottage are not considered of special interest.