Woodtown Farmhouse

WHITCHURCH SX 47 SE

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Farmhouse. Early-mid C17, with C19 alterations and some C20 alterations. Painted rubble, tiled hipped roof, half-hipped to right, ridge stack to right of front entrance and gable end stack to left. Original plan uncertain, now 3-room plan with entrance directly into central room; upper end room to right and central room heated from axial stack with back to back fireplaces, end room to left originally dairy, heated by end stack, probably a later addition. Stair tower to rear left of central room. 2 storeys and 4 windows, first floor has 3 C20 2-light casements under eaves and a 4- pane light with margin glazing above the porch; ground floor has door with glazed panel to end right, gabled porch with stable doors, inner door has granite chamfered and step-stopped surround. To left of porch, a 3-light casement in chamfered granite surround with mullions cut away, 2-light C20 casement to left. Small single storey lean-to to front left and 2-storey lean-to stable attached to end left with door and single light at ground floor and loading door above. Left side of stable has single storey lean-to, both pitched roofs in corrugated iron. Rear has upepr end to left with 2-light casement at ground and first floor, single storey lean-to conceals any possible evidence of rear passage entry, lean-to has 2-light casement to side and door to rear. 2-storey stair tower with gable end to rear has first floor single light with slate lintel and similar blocked window in gable end, C20 4-pane light to right side at ground floor and small single storey addition in angle to right with door. Lower end to right has 2-light casement at ground and first floor, stable has small unglazed window at ground floor. Interior Central room has slate floor, 6 cross beams, 4 chamfered, C20 fireplace, ledged door in moulded frame to rear stair tower, 4-panelled door to end room to left. End room to left has 4 cross beams, 2 chamfered, C20 fireplace. Stair tower has unusually wide wooden newel stair around one post, single light at first floor in hollow-chamfered granite surround with iron stanchion; at first floor a chamfered wooden doorframe gives access to rear longitudinal passage. C19 principal rafters visible at first floor. Upper end room at ground floor has blocked fireplace.

Listing NGR: SX4872171970