Woodend Farm

Woodend Farm is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating back to the 17th century. It incorporates earlier fabric and was altered and extended in the late 17th century, again around 1800, and in the late 20th century. The building is timber-framed with brick infill, but was largely refronted in red brick with blue brick detailing. It has a central brick ridge stack, gable stacks, and a plain tile roof.

The house has a central lobby entrance plan, with a rear stair wing added later. The front (west) elevation is symmetrical with five bays, the central bay slightly projecting. The entrance has a four-panel door and a small four-pane window above, sheltered by a shallow timber hood. The ground floor windows are also four-pane, set in transomed frames with stone sills and flat brick heads, now supported by concrete lintels. The corners of the projecting bay and the end bays feature mock quoining in blue brick.

The rear elevation retains some original timber framing, now largely hidden by three gabled extensions. A section of the original rear wall remains visible, with exposed framing and rendered infill panels. A narrow, off-centre gabled stair wing has exposed framing and a single first-floor window. A wide, asymmetrically gabled wing to the left end has two and three-pane window openings, all with 20th-century joinery. A gabled wing to the right end has a single two-pane window on each floor, with the ground floor window slightly off-centre.

Inside, the house has a cellar with substantial oak joists and chamfered spine beams. The ground floor rooms are arranged around a central stack and follow an early lobby-entry plan. The stack has plain brickwork and a timber lintel above a small hearth opening. Chamfered crossed spine beams are in the rooms to either side of the central stack, one with pyramidal chamfer stops. The rear stair wing has exposed framing, and a turned baluster staircase with a ramped, moulded handrail, which has been repaired and modified. The first floor has exposed posts with jowelled heads supporting the rear wall plate. Closed partitions define the end bays, and exposed framing is visible on the north end rear wall. The roof timbering shows different phases, but the central area retains smoke-blackened oak rafters, purlins, and curved wind bracing.