Hendham House

Hendham House is a detached house dated 1779, located in Woodleigh. It is constructed of rubble with a rendered ground floor front and a slate-hung left return wall, topped with an asbestos-cement slate roof. The building has a compact hipped shape with a symmetrical front, although the staircase is positioned to the left wall, with an upper flight leading to the center back. The house has three storeys and a basement, featuring a three-window front with 12 and 16-pane sash windows set in stone voussoirs on the first and second floors.

On the ground floor, there are lofty glazing-bar French doors flanking a central 6-panel part-glazed door, which is set in panelled reveals beneath an elliptical fanlight. The entire ground floor is covered by a flat-roofed verandah supported by eight very slender fluted wood Doric columns, which have a slight dentilled entablature. The last bay on the right is enclosed with original slight glazing, while the left end has a part-glazed door under a transom light at the top of a short flight of stone stairs. The house is set on a stone terrace with a central flight of six stone steps with nosings.

The left return features 12 and 16-pane sashes, along with a lofty stair sash. The right return has 12 over 16 over 20-pane sashes, a 16-pane window below two blocked openings, and a date-stone. The back of the house includes a very wide 2-panel door beneath a lofty stair window, and there is a door to the basement at the east end. The stack is located at the loft-back.

Inside, the house contains many good fielded-panel doors and shutters, as well as a dog-leg stair with turned balusters and decorative tread-ends, all painted except for the stripped handrail. The basement features a large segmental brick fireplace, a central spiral wood staircase, slate flags, and some cobbled flooring in the front part. The wide 16-pane sashes may either be replacements or very early examples, depending on the accuracy of the date-stone.