Woolston Grange

House. Dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, it was altered in the early 19th century and extensively remodelled in 1911 by Horace Farquharson. Constructed of red sandstone rubble with slate roofs, the main range has a hipped roof over the projecting entrance bay, while a lower, separately-roofed service wing extends to the right, with a single-storey lean-to addition beyond. Brick stacks are located in the gable ends and to the right of the entrance. The plan follows a three-cell and cross-passage layout, which was modified over time. The two-storey front has a 1:1:2:2 bay arrangement, featuring moulded ashlar mullioned and transomed windows with leaded panes. The projecting porch bay includes a four-light window, three-light windows on the returns, and a two-light casement window on the first floor. Small, two-light leaded casement windows flank the entrance bay on the ground floor. An entrance is accessed through a segmental headed opening with a dressed stone surround and a square hoodmould, leading to an early 20th-century plank door. A service entrance is located in the end bay of the single-storey addition, featuring a plank door under a pentice hood and a casement window to the right. The rear elevation presents a more picturesque Arts and Crafts appearance with gables, dormers, catslide roofs, and a gabled wing to the left, incorporating a large external stack which is part of the original dwelling. Inside, the inner room, now the hall, has a restored moulded four-panel coapartment and the outer room features a twelve-panel compartment ceiling, although it may have been imported. The upper storey is said to contain three pairs of jointed crucks. Before alterations, as illustrated in Country Life, the house possessed a plain early 19th-century façade, a double span roof, and scattered fenestration, with an entrance one bay to the right of the present position, which was then a late 19th-century canted bay window.