Woodbrooke Farmhouse And Adjoining Outbuilding

Woodbrooke Farmhouse and the adjoining outbuilding, likely used as stables, date from the 17th century and may incorporate earlier elements. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone or cob stacks topped by 19th-century brick chimney shafts, and a corrugated asbestos roof that was previously thatched.

The farmhouse is a long, two-storey range facing south, consisting of a three-room layout with a through passage. The inner room is located to the right (east), alongside the stables and hayloft, which are under a continuous roof at that end. A large axial stack serves the hall and backs onto the passage, while a service room stack is found in the left (west) gable end. The house has a three-window front, featuring 20th-century two-light casements on the ground floor and three-light casements on the first floor. The right window is a 19th-century three-light window with eight panes per light, and the two three-light windows on the left may be from the 18th century. A 20th-century gabled porch with glazed sides leads to the passage, and a 19th-century door has been inserted into the inner room.

The adjoining outbuilding on the right includes a door and an unglazed window, as well as a first-floor loading bay supported by a heavy oak frame. Most internal features are concealed by 20th-century plasterwork, but there is a late 17th to early 18th-century rear passage doorframe with a heavy bead-moulded surround and a contemporary door fitted with a draw-bar. The inner room showcases chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams and appears to have originally extended into the current outbuilding. Above the hayloft, the exposed A-frame roof features pegged dovetail lap collars and some reused smoke-blackened common rafters. This roof structure seems to continue over the main house, although the roof space is currently inaccessible.