Woodhead Farmhouse Including Cider House Adjoining To East

Woodhead Farmhouse, with its adjoining cider house, likely began as a farmhouse in the 16th century and was updated and partially rebuilt in the late 19th century. The original section is built from local stone and flint rubble, while the 19th-century additions are stone rubble with brick detailing and a plastered front. Stacks include one with a Beerstone ashlar chimneyshaft and both are topped with 20th-century brick. The original part of the house has a thatched roof, the 19th-century wing a slate roof, and outbuildings a corrugated iron roof.

Initially, the house followed a three-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south. The room at the east end has a gable-end stack, and the hall has a projecting side stack. In the late 19th century, the passage and service wing were rebuilt, incorporating a two-room crosswing that projects from the west end and includes the main staircase. While much carpentry detail is concealed by later plasterwork, and the roofspace is inaccessible, it is thought that the original house may have been a 16th-century open hall house. The house is now two storeys tall with secondary outshots at the rear.

The front of the house has a roughly symmetrical appearance with a two-bay, two-window façade, featuring aluminum-framed casement windows without glazing bars (installed around 1980). However, the hall window (to the right of the stack) retains a late 16th or early 17th century Beerstone ashlar frame, ovolo-moulded, now missing its vertical mullion, and a hoodmould. The front doorway is now located inside the crosswing. The main block roof is gable-ended on the right and hipped on the left, while the crosswing roof is half-hipped.

The interior is largely a result of the late 19th-century modernization. The only exposed original carpentry is a plain oak lintel above the hall fireplace. Roof trusses are concealed within first-floor partitions, and the roofspace is inaccessible. However, it is likely that original 16th or 17th-century carpentry and detail still exists behind the later plaster.

A cider house is attached to the main block, projecting from the east front corner. The west end of the cider house has a doorway and a shuttered loft window. On the east end, an external staircase leads up to the apple loft. The cider house's roof is hipped at each end. It is likely a 19th-century building, containing plain carpentry detail within.