Woodknowle

Farmhouse. It likely originated in the 17th century and was remodelled in the early 19th century. The exterior is whitewashed, with some areas rendered and some plastered cob. It has a scantle slate roof with gabled ends and chimneys – one of stone and others of brick. Originally a single-depth plan, the 19th-century remodelling created a double-depth plan by adding two rooms and a stair gallery. Brick in the roofline and on the front indicates rebuilding at the right end. It has a three-window front, with the right-hand side slightly advanced. A 20th-century front door is centrally positioned under a slate canopy, with a further entrance on the front left. The ground floor windows on the front include a six-pane horned sash to the left of the front door and a six-pane horned sash to the right. Above the porch is a small horned timber sash with six panes above six panes. The first floor windows include an eight-pane horned timber sash on the left and a six-pane horned timber sash above the porch. The right-hand first-floor window is a six-pane horned sash. The present rear of the house was the early 19th-century symmetrical front and has a timber cornice decorated with individual beads instead of modillions. The central entrance door has six coffered panels in an elliptically arched doorway. The ground floor windows on the rear are tripartite, with timber sashes, six panes above six panes, with flanking lights, each of two panes above two. Three first-floor hornless timber sashes, each with eight panes above eight, are also on the rear. A 20th-century bathroom window was inserted to the right of the centre. Inside, the present front door leads into a stair hall. A ground-floor room to the left of the stair hall has a large fireplace with granite jambs and lintel, and a clom oven. The room to the rear-left has a slate floor. The stair gallery to the rear features an early 19th-century decorated plaster ceiling and stick balusters to the gallery front. The complex roof timbers, including an intact early 19th-century roof, remain.