Woolfin Farmhouse

Woolfin Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an early 16th century core and later improvements from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks and plastered rubble chimney shafts. The roof is covered with corrugated asbestos, which replaced the original thatch. The house was originally designed with a three-room-and-through-passage layout facing southeast, with the inner room located at the left (southwest) end. The service end has been demolished and replaced by a dairy outshot. The hall features an axial stack that backs onto the passage, while the inner room has a projecting end stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a regular but asymmetrical front with three windows, which are late 19th and 20th century casements, most of which have glazing bars. There is a 19th century plank door leading to the passage on the right side of the main front, and the roof is gable-ended. The outshot has a front doorway and a monopitch roof.

Inside, the farmhouse has seen little modernization. The doorframe to the passage-hall is likely from the 17th century and made of oak with a chamfered surround. The hall contains a late 16th to early 17th century crossbeam that is soffit-chamfered with late step stops. The fireplace has been reduced in size, obscuring its original form. To the left of the fireplace is an ogee-moulded beam, possibly the bressumer that supports the internal jetty of the passage chamber. The upper end of the hall features a full-height oak-framed crosswall, likely dating from the mid-16th century. The ground floor includes an oak plank-and-muntin screen, which is now plastered over, with large framing above. The inner room has a beam from the late 16th to early 17th century that has a rough soffit-chamfer and is supported by a plain post against the hall screen. The underside of this beam shows a series of mortices for a large-framed axial partition, which has a doorway towards the hall end. The fireplace in the inner room is blocked. The roof, dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, has a lower part of the hall truss that is plastered over, but its shape indicates it is a jointed cruck. The roof is not smoke-blackened, although the ridge over the passage is, suggesting that the roofs of the hall and inner room are secondary. The full-height cob partition on the lower side of the passage now serves as an end wall and includes a blocked ground floor doorway.