Woodcote Farmhouse And Adjacent Garden Wall, Gate Piers And Moat Bridge

the following buildings shall be included:

SO 97 SW DODFORD WITH GRAFTON KIDDERMINSTER ROAD (north side) 9/90 Woodcote Farmhouse and adjoining garden wall, gate 18.5.84 piers and moat bridge (formerly listed as Woodcote Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse divided into two dwellings, and adjoining garden wall, gate piers and moat bridge. Late C18 with mid-C19 alterations. Brick with two-span plain tiled roof (banded with red and blue tiles), gable-end parapets with ashlar coping, kneelers and ball finials; large ridge stack and right end and rear stacks with blue brick capping. Two storeys, attic and cellar; dentilled eaves cornice; four bays; windows have gauged flat heads and are C19 mullion and tran- som casements; two 3-light and a2-light window on the ground floor and two 3- light and two 2-light first floor windows. Main entrance in third bay has C19 gabled canopy with pierced scalloped bargeboards and moulded finial on shaped brackets; doorcase has original reeded pilasters, raised and fielded panelled reveals and soffit, 6-panelled door (upper panels are glazed, middle panels are raised and fielded) and a barred segmental fanlight. To the left of the door is a rectangular window with stained glass. Left side elevation has similar case- ments with cambered heads, a doorcase with pilasters, 6-panelled door and traceried fanlight; central valley gutter leads to stone gargoyle and fountain head below. Attic lights at left gable end. Interior retains its dog-leg staircase with wreathed handrail and turned newels. Later additions to rear. Garden walls to west and north; brick with sandstone coping; varies between three and five feet high; west wall adjoins farmhouse to left side, runs west for eight yards then returns south for about 40 yards; it is interrupted by a simple gateway to the north of which is a mounting block with five sandstone steps and a dog kennel in its base; this west section of the wall divides the garden from the farmyard. This wall returns to the east for about 50 yards alongside the main road. About half-way it is interrupted by two square rusti- cated sandstone gate piers with pyramidal capping and ball finials; there is a single ornate cast iron gate. The gateway leads onto the moat bridge; this has an elliptical archway, is about five feet wide and five yards long, and has tall decorative cast iron railings which have standards with urn finials. The moat survives to the south and east of the farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SO9173872010