116-156 Woodfield Cottages, outhouses and pumps

A development of 41 workers' cottages, arranged in three parallel terraces, along with contemporary paired outhouses, pumps, and lamp standards. The cottages were built by E.H. Bentall, a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, for his workforce and completed in 1873. The structures are built of mass concrete with a render coating, covered with slate roofs, and feature red brick ridge chimneys. The paired outbuildings are similarly detailed.

The terraces are arranged facing south, with their outbuildings located at the top of the gardens, facing the cottage frontages. The original interior layout of each cottage included four rooms: two on each side of a wide central passage, with a smaller room at the end of the passage. Many of the cottages have since had their interior layouts modified.

Each cottage originally had two bays with an entrance doorway and single window openings to either side. The front door was the only access to the cottage interior. Original window frames were six-over-six pane sashes to both front and rear walls; the rear wall also had a small opening between the larger flanking windows. Most cottages now have replacement door and window components of varied design and materials. There are added porches and a smaller number of roof dormer extensions, again of varied design, together with the insertion of numerous roof lights within the roof slopes. The outbuildings facing the cottages are paired, single-bay units with a pitched roof, each with a single door opening, a flanking opening, and a rear wall chimney. Some outbuildings have undergone alterations similar to those of the cottages, although fewer have replacement door and window components. Some have lost their chimneys.

The interiors of the cottages appear to have undergone extensive and varied alterations. An inspection of one cottage revealed that original chimney stack detailing, including the render coating and chamfered corners, survive within the attic created by the later addition of pitched roofs. The original plan form details, including room dimensions and hearth positions, largely remain, though now fitted with 20th and 21st century fixtures and fittings.

Contemporary iron water pumps and basins are retained to the front of numbers 146 and 154.