Woodside Cottage Woodside Farmhouse

Woodside Cottage, now part of Woodside Farmhouse, is a medieval timber-framed building encased in gritstone, with a stone slate roof added in the 17th century. It features five-light chamfered mullioned windows on both floors and a two-light chamfered mullioned window with a small circular window above. The entrance has a four-centred arch doorway with a large pediment-shaped lintel. There is a cannon water spout aligned with the doorway, located below the kneeler of the east gable end of the late 17th-century farmhouse. Inside, Woodside Cottage retains heavy wall posts, a heavy stud partition (which was originally the outer wall), a chamfered ceiling beam with an ogee stop, heavy scantling straight tenoned joists, and roof trusses with arch braced kingposts. A turned baluster staircase from the 18th century leads to the upper floor. In the early 19th century, a two-bay extension with square mullion windows was added to the north. The late 17th-century farmhouse is positioned at right angles to the cottage, featuring saddlestone gable ends with kneelers. The south front has a variety of chamfered mullion windows, including four, five, six, and seven-light windows, along with a chamfered doorway. There is an outshut at the rear and an external chimney with offsets. To the south, linked at first floor level with the farmhouse at its southeast corner, is a late 17th or early 18th-century cottage extension that has three-light chamfered mullion windows and a former first floor doorway in the return. This extension connects to a barn that runs east-west, built largely in the 19th century from sandstone brick with a stone slate roof. The site is a well-preserved farmstead that illustrates the historical development of local vernacular architecture.