Listed Building: WOOD FARM FARMHOUSE (1130342)

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON SJ 4476 8/29 KINSEY'S LANE (west side) Wood Farm Farmhouse 21.2.83 GV II C17 long L-shaped farmhouse, altered. Brown brick English garden wall bond with sections of local squared rubble sandstone. Corrugated iron roof probably replaces thatch. Projecting brick dentil course at eaves. Segmental brick arches to door and window openings, 3 light 6 pane softwood casements set flush. One double hung 12 pane Georgian sash (recessed) in south wing. Plain brick chimneys. Interior retains C17 floor plan: recessed porch leads to main rooms l and r: two ingle nooks back-to-back (under central chimney stack) with deep oak smoke-hood beams, backs chamfered. 6-panelled door to south wing (perhaps originally a separate cottage). Most other internal doors thin (1/2 inch) ledges on battens. Oak stop-chamfered first floor main beams on jowled oak brackets which suggest possible timber-framed structure preceding present brick and stone outer walls. Surviving timbers C17. Roof timbers not visible. Listing NGR: SJ4471076858