Woodlands Farmhouse

Woodlands Farmhouse is a late 18th or early 19th century farmhouse constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof. It is three storeys in height with a two-storey rear wing. The north front features a dentil brick eaves cornice. There are a pair of integral lateral brick stacks to the rear. The front has three bays with glazing bar sashes, painted stone cills, and gauged-brick heads. Some outer first-floor windows and one second-floor window are blind and painted to resemble sashes. A pair of central half-glazed, panelled doors are set within an Ionic doorcase with unfluted pilasters, egg and dart ornament to the capitals, frieze and cornice, and a segmental fanlight. A Greek Doric stone porch, now enclosed, has a pair of columns in antis, a full entablature, blocking course, and a cast-iron lattice balustrade. The porch contains a pair of probably 1900 half-glazed doors with an overlight and side lights. The left-hand return front has one bay, containing a boxed 16-pane glazing bar sash window on the second floor, a tripartite first-floor glazing bar sash with a pronounced segmental head and rendered tympanum, and a circa 1900 flat-roofed square bay on the ground floor. The right-hand return front has three bays with glazing bar sashes to the first and second floors and a circa 1900 square bay on the ground floor. The rear wing has a dentil brick eaves cornice, brick ridge stacks, three bays, glazing bar sashes, mullioned and transomed wooden casements, painted stone cills and lintels, and a large central ground-floor round-arched blind recess. A half-glazed door is located to the left. The side elevations of the rear wing are three-bayed. The interior was not inspected, but the staircase has an L-plan with a swept flight, stick balusters, and a wreathed handrail. The farmhouse is situated within landscaped grounds, which include a grotto to the north-west and a small lake to the east.