Woodmanton Farmhouse, Kitchen, Outbuildings And Tower Base

Woodmanton Farmhouse, kitchen, outbuildings, and tower base comprise a complex of buildings spanning several centuries. The farmhouse itself dates to about 1827 and is constructed of red brick, likely originally stuccoed, with a hipped slate roof and two brick stacks. This is a plain villa with pilasters at the corners and two storeys, featuring 16-pane sashes under rubbled brick heads, with a 20-pane sash flanking the central entrance. The entrance has a stuccoed portico with square plan pillars bearing an incised Soanean design and a flat canopy with a moulded cornice. The door is half-glazed with a rectangular fanlight.

Attached to the northeast corner of the house is a kitchen, possibly a former chapel, dating from the 14th century with alterations from the 16th to 19th centuries. It is timber-framed with brick cladding and rubble additions. Two storeys high, it has three ranges of 19th-century casements under segmental heads on the ground floor. The underside of a tie-beam on the left gable (visible from the rear) indicates the former location of a window. A rubble outshut to the rear is likely from the 18th century. The interior has two framed bays, and the central truss features a massive tie-beam, jowelled main posts, curved ashlar pieces, and common rafters with similar ashlar pieces and braces forming a two-centred arch. A wall-plate composed of two timbers with roll mouldings is also present. A blocked two-light window with ogee trefoiled heads is found in the rear (north) wall. The existing floor dates back to the 17th century, with a stack likely inserted in the 16th century.

Attached to the southwest corner of the house are outbuildings with a tower base, constructed in the mid-19th century with a possible 14th-century element. They are built of rubble with a plain tile roof and are in an L-plan, with a circular tower base at the extreme northwest corner. Three bays are present in the south range, four in the west range, featuring segmental headed openings. A 20th-century rolled steel joist is visible in the main opening of the north range. A notable feature is the base of a coursed rubble tower at the northwest corner, projecting into a moat. The tower base, the moat to the west and south of the house, and the possible chapel may date to 1332 when John de Wisham obtained a license to crenellate.