Description

Dated 1692, 2-storey and attic house, with single storey
row of 3 later 18th century former cottages at right
angles to SW, and early 19th century garden buildings to
SE. Red sandstone rubble with harl-pointing and variety of
of ashlar dressings, some stugged, some with chamfered arrises.
SE ELEVATION: originally 3 widely spaced bays; door at
centre with lintel incised 1692, and cement rendered later
window flanking to left, pair of windows to right; small
1st floor window at centre, flanked by narrow, taller
windows.
NW ELEVATION: 3-bay, grouped closely at centre, with
window to each floor, 3 of which are blocked, 1 altered to
timber mullioned bipartite, further ground floor narrow
window to outer right. Cottage row and outbuildings
adjoined to and extending beyond outer bays.
SW ELEVATION: windows to each floor in gable, with attic
window blocked.
NE ELEVATION: harled lean-to modern addition at ground,
small 1st floor and attic windows to outer right. 4-pane
glazing pattern predominating, 2 with 12-pane, in sash and
case windows. Crowstepped gables; Ballachulish
slates. Coped gable end stugged ashlar stacks with
thackstanes to house. Cottage row and outbuildings
adjoined to and extending beyond outer bays.
COTTAGES: 3, 3-bay, single storey cottages, with
irregular roof heights and pitches; door at centre
cottage blocked as window and flanked by windows; porch
addition to door of left cottage; outer left bay of right
cottage enlarged as door with windows in remaining bays.
Timber garden shed added to rear of cottage by house.
Steep roofs, coped stacks with thackstanes, pantiled.
OUTBUILDINGS: gabled single storey building (former
stable?), with fanlit doorway flanked by windows, and
with smaller window inserted later; piend-roofed garage
adjoined to S with blank rear and rounded angle to E.
GARDEN WALLS: rubble coped rubble walls to garden
enclosed to E and N of house from later 18th century.

Statement of Interest

The early date and relatively unaltered form of Woodlea

secures its place of importance in the village. It apparently

served as the home of the Biel House joiner; one of the

single storey cottages appears (from the 1853 OS map)

to have been the first post office in the village. Formerly

known as The Joiner's House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792574

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)