Woolstone Lodge And Adjoining Cottage

Woolstone Lodge and the adjoining cottage is a house built in the 17th century, reconstructed and extended around 1839 by Captain Butler, a retired Royal Navy officer. The building has an L-plan layout with roughcast walls and a Welsh slate roof, featuring brick stacks. It stands two storeys tall.

The garden front has a three-window range with margin lights to the sashes, hood moulds, dentilled eaves, and gabled side wings with a central raised parapet. There are ridge stacks as well. The right side has a four-window range, with a near-centre door that features a six-panelled design and a reeded architrave. The first floor has sashes and lunettes, while the ground floor includes two sashes and two French windows with margin light sashes.

Inside, the hall has a lime ash floor that imitates stone flagging and retains an elliptical arch at the rear. There is an original fireplace and staircase with cast-iron balusters, along with original fireplaces in other rooms. The room on the front right features a Gothick style cast-iron fireplace and late 16th century oak panelling, which was removed from an unknown house in Wales around 1870. It also has a moulded and dentilled cornice, and the overmantle displays three painted scenes from the Labours of Hercules.

To the rear right of Captain Butler's work from around 1830 are two cottages dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, which have roughcast walling, slate roofing, and a brick ridge stack from around 1700. When Captain George Butler built Woolstone Lodge, he also planted a small park opposite the garden front with elms and beeches, diverted the mill stream, and constructed the Stag House and a building that housed the granary and stables attached to the house.