Woodland And Leowartha

Woodland and Leowartha are two adjoining houses built around 1800 and the early 19th century. They feature painted rubble walls, with some painted cob at the rear. Leowartha, on the left (south), has wooden lintels, a corrugated asbestos roof, and a brick chimney over external rubble and cob on the left gable end. Woodland, on the right, has shallow brick arches and a scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends, sharing the left-hand chimney with Leowartha. The houses are built end on to a slope, with Woodland positioned at a higher level. Each house has a layout of two equal reception rooms flanking a central passage that leads to a central stair. They are both two storeys tall and have nearly symmetrical two-window fronts with central doorways. Leowartha features an original six-panel door, with 16-pane hornless sashes on the ground floor and 20-pane hornless sashes in slightly wider openings on the first floor. Woodland has original hornless sashes, except for a 20th-century 12-pane replacement on the ground floor right. The interiors have not been inspected but are reported to be little altered. The houses are set in an unspoiled and beautiful valley overlooking Cowlands Creek and are part of a group of houses that have mostly remained little altered since their construction in the 18th and early to mid-19th centuries.