Woolwich Farmhouse

Woolwich Farmhouse is a house with an attached outbuilding, now part of the house, dating from the mid-18th century. It was altered and restored around 1970. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and has a graduated stone slate roof. It is a two-storey, two-bay house with a two-storey, two-bay outbuilding to the right and a lean-to outbuilding at the far right. The structure features quoins and a plinth.

The house has a central half-glazed four-panel door set in a quoined surround, located inside a gabled single-storey porch that includes shaped kneelers, coping, and an internal stone shelf or bench. The flanking windows on both floors are two-light, now three-light, with mullions that are chamfered on the outer face but were originally flat faced, all in plain stone surrounds. There are shaped kneelers and gable coping on the left side, with end stacks, the one on the left being corniced.

The outbuilding, now part of the house, has a ground floor that includes, from left to right, a board door in a quoined surround, a two-light inserted window, and a straight flight of steps leading to a first-floor board door on the right. The first floor features former two-light windows that have been altered to three-light. There is a kneeler and gable coping on the right side, and the lean-to on the right has a doorway.

Inside, the entrance leads into a kitchen, which is now partitioned off, featuring a large fireplace with a tripartite lintel and a spine beam with a cyma stop. The parlour to the right has an inserted fireplace. There is a staircase and a service room in the rear outshut behind the parlour, although the stairs have been replaced. The outshut roof is supported by a curved principal rafter truss known as a 'Niddleton Truss', likely derived from a cruck form, while the remainder of the roof features queen strut trusses.

The first floor of the outbuilding may have served as both a bothey and a hay loft, as it was originally lit by substantial windows. The addition of the outshut dairy to the rear left and the lean-to cowhouse to the far right indicates that the number of cows and the scale of dairying were expanding during the 18th and 19th centuries.