Woodbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Farmhouse.
Woodbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-garret-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodbury Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, which was remodeled and extended in the late 18th century and again in the 19th century. It is constructed from painted slatestone rubble, featuring dressed arch stones at the front and wooden lintels at the rear. The roof is a hipped dry Delabole slate design that slopes lower to the front left over an outshut. There are brick chimneys on the right side wall and over the original left side wall, with a possible original ridge axis position, and a further shaft attached. The roof likely originally sloped lower to the rear, as indicated by the positions of the first-floor rear lintels.
The original plan was probably symmetrical, with two equal reception rooms flanking a central passage that leads to a central stair, situated between narrower rear service rooms. The farmhouse was extended to the left (west) in the 18th century, as evidenced by maps, which show a double-depth bay and an outshut at the front. There was further extension, likely in the 19th century, with a large lean-to added at the right (east) end.
The building has two storeys and originally featured a symmetrical five-window front with a central doorway. However, the original front is now partly obscured by a projecting one-window lean-to on the left. There are flat arches over the original openings. The window opening above the door and those to the left of the doorway remain in their original positions, but the second window from the left on the first floor is blocked. The original openings to the right of the doorway are also blocked, and the pier of masonry between these openings has been removed to accommodate wide windows, which now have tripartite horned sashes with glazing bars. The doorway has a 20th-century door with a six-pane overlight.
To the left of the doorway, there are 18-pane sashes on the ground floor and 20th-century single-light casements above. The outshut to the left features 12-pane horned sashes, while the lean-to on the right has a 20th-century window. The rear of the farmhouse includes early 19th-century 16-pane two-light casements on the ground and first floors to the left, and a 20-pane two-light casement near the middle of the original wall length, all with crown glass. There is a blocked doorway between these openings and another original window opening to the right of the stair, which is flanked by large buttresses. Other openings have been altered or added later.
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