Description

HEDLEY WOODHEAD
NZ 05 NE NZ 090580

11/157 Woodhead Farmhouse

GV ll

House, originally two dwellings. C17, altered. Rubble with dressings and
roughly-shaped quoins; Welsh slate roof, two brick stacks. South elevation
in 2 sections: left part 2 storeys, 2 bays; lower windows retain lintels of
3- and 4-light mullioned windows, upper windows (including narrow window to
far right) with projecting brick sills. Steeply-pitched roof with end stacks.
Left return shows massive stepped stack flanked at attic level by narrow
chamfered lights, one with old iron bar. Lower right part 2 storeys, 2 bays,
irregular; to far left renewed door in chamfered surround with flat-pointed
head in square frame, and traces of possible blocked doorway above; lower
windows, that to right part-slatted, with timber lintels and brick sills,
upper 8-pane Yorkshire sashes. Right return shows boarded door with 4-pane
Yorkshire sash and renewed 4-pane sash with timber lintel above.
Interior; walls 0.75 metre thick, old collar-beam trusses.
The east part of the house may be an unusually easterly bastle.

Listing NGR: NZ0895757955

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297427

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)