Woodend Farmhouse

Woodend Farmhouse is a farmhouse and shippon dating from the early 16th century or earlier. It is constructed from whitewashed stone rubble and features a slurried slate roof with a gabled higher end on the right and a hipped lower end on the left. The roof is adorned with early crested ridge tiles along its entire length, except for the lower end. The building has a three-room layout with a cross passage. There is a rear lateral hall stack and a gable end stack that heats the inner room, with a floor inserted into the hall in the late 16th century. The front wall of the hall was brought forward to align with a stair turret in the 17th century, and the lower end was rebuilt or partly rebuilt between the 17th and 18th centuries. There are later rear outshuts.

The farmhouse is one and a half storeys tall and has a four-window range. The windows include two, three, and four-light casements with glazing bars, along with a small single-light window on the left side of the first floor. There are two dormers, one with a raking roof and the other gabled with pigeon holes. The left-hand passage doorway features a plank door.

The shippon at the lower end has a loft door above a small window and three pigeon holes below the eaves, along with later outshuts at the rear.

Inside, there is one main lateral beam and two half beams in the hall, all chamfered with large step stops. A solid wall separates the hall from the inner room, featuring a cranked head chamfered timber doorframe. Newel stairs are located at the front of the lower end of the hall. There is a heavy plank and muntin screen with mason's mitres between the hall and passage, and heavy square-section beams in the passage. The roof space is inaccessible, and the hall fireplace is blocked.

Woodend Farmhouse is a notable example of a late medieval farmhouse that has remained largely unaltered since the 18th century.