Description

SD 63 NE AIGHTON, BAILEY & CHAIGLEY WOODFIELDS

8/35 Woodfields Farmhouse and No. 8

II

House, C17th. Sandstone rubble, partly rendered, with slate roof.
2 storeys. The south-west wall has a cross wing at its right-hand end.
On each floor is a sashed window with plain stone surround under a
C17th hood. The gable has a coping with kneelers. The recessed central
section has a sashed window with glazing bars and plain stone surround,
with a door with plain stone surround to its right having a section of
C17th drip mould remaining. On the 1st floor is a 3-light chamfered
mullioned window with hood. To the left is a 2-storey gabled porch with
coping and kneelers. On the ground floor is a doorway with plain surround,
on the 1st floor a 3-light chamfered mullioned window with hood. To the
left of the porch is a later lean-to, the left-hand gable of the main
house having windows with plain reveals, a coping and a brick chimney cap.
The south-east wall of the cross wing has, at its left-hand end, a
3-light rebated and ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the ground floor,
and a 6-light mullioned and transomed window with inner hollow chamfer
and outer chamfer on the 1st floor. To the right is a chimney stack with
a 2-storey gabled porch to its right. This has a plain stone door surround
with '-GA 1813' underneath a triangular moulded hood. Above is a sashed
window with glazing bars and plain stone surround. To the right of the
porch there is a sashed window with glazing bars and plain stone surround
on each floor. Interior. The main block has a chamfered and stopped
firehood bressumer and heck post with some of the studs of the spere
visible. This spere shielded the original entrance in the south-west wall,
through the porch.

Listing NGR: SD6955239307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595294

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