Woolston Green Farmhouse

Farmhouse, dating to approximately the late 15th or early 16th century, with alterations around the early 17th century, and later additions and remodelling in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled ends and raised eaves. A rendered stone stack with a tapered top is located at the higher gable end.

Originally a three-room plan with a through passage and open hall, the hall was floored and a rear stack inserted around the early 17th century. An inner room and chamber above were heated by a gable end stack. A newel staircase with a garderobe is situated in the depth of the rear wall at the higher end. A timber screen separates the hall from the inner room. Plastered stud partitions line both sides of the passage, with an early 19th century staircase inserted into the rear of the passage. A circa 17th century kitchen wing extends from the rear of the hall, and a circa 19th century wing is attached to the rear of the lower end. A circa 19th century single-storey lean-to is situated at the higher northeast end.

The two-storey facade has a four-window range featuring circa 19th century two-light casements with glazing bars. A through passage doorway is located to the left of centre, with a 20th century glazed door and an open-fronted rendered stone porch with a wooden lattice gable and arched front. A rear projection at the higher end houses the staircase, with a slit window to the side. The original lateral hall stack remains, although it is now without a short gabled kitchen wing at the rear of the hall and a later, shorter gabled wing is at the rear of the lower end, both with slate roof canopies. A lean-to adjoins the higher northeast end.

Internally, a plank and muntin screen at the upper end of the hall features ogee moulded muntins with high convex stops and a moulded head rail with masons mitres. Screen muntins are roll moulded on the inner room side. An ogee moulded, cranked head doorway with a panel above is located at the left end of the screen, though the base has been cut away and underbuilt due to decay. An inserted hall ceiling has three roll moulded cross beams without stops, and similarly moulded joists with butt stops. The hall fireplace has a timber, chamfered lintel, stone rubble jambs and an oven. The inner room features a main cross beam and half beam against the higher end wall, deeply chamfered with large, slightly stepped stops, and joists with runout stops. The inner room’s fireplace in the end wall has a reused timber beam with scroll stops and stone rubble jambs. The front window lintel in the inner room is a reused hall window head of at least five lights with roll and hollow mouldings. A stone newel staircase is recessed within the wall at the rear of the higher end, with two slit windows beside it. The chamber above the inner room has a garderobe with a rectangular shaft within the wall, adjacent to the newel stairs. The chamber also includes a small fireplace in the end wall with a square section timber lintel. The kitchen wing at the rear has a timber fireplace beam, where the chamfer and stops have recently been cut, alongside chamfered ceiling beams and joists. Some 18th and early 19th century joinery remains on the first floor, alongside an early 19th century dog-leg staircase inserted into the rear of the passage, with square newels and stick balusters.

The roof features 19th century softwood king post trusses. The lower gable end has been rebuilt in brick.