Venmoor Farmhouse

Venmoor Farmhouse, also known as Venmore, is a farmhouse built in the 1840s. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles. The house has a rectangular double-depth plan, with the main rooms located on either side of a central entrance hall, and a contemporary wing on the right side. It has two storeys and a symmetrical front with a three-window range. The eaves are overhanging, and the first-floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set under depressed window arches. On the ground floor, there is a tripartite window with a 4:12:4 pane arrangement flanking a central panelled door that has a rectangular fanlight above it. The entrance is sheltered by a hipped, slated open porch supported by simple chamfered posts. The right-hand extension is recessed and has a two-window range with 12-pane hornless sash windows, although the ground floor windows have been replaced, all under depressed arches similar to those on the main range. The left elevation is well composed, featuring external stacks with white Portland stone capitals and two 12-pane hornless sash windows on each floor between the stacks. Venmoor Farm was the earliest example in Woodbury of the mid-19th century improved farmsteads built by the Rolle estate.