Navestock Woodhouse

Navestock Woodhouse is a house dating back to circa 1600, with significant additions from the early 19th century and the 20th century. It is timber-framed, with rendered walls and weatherboard at the base. The roof is covered in peg tiles and includes a gabled dormer window. The house is two storeys and has an attic. It has irregular wooden casement windows and a 20th-century porch. A central chimney stack, rebuilt in later times, and a smaller stack at the north-east end are present. The house has an L-shaped layout, with a main front range and a cross-wing to the north-east, and a chimney stack located between the two units. These sections may be contemporary or the cross-wing might be slightly earlier. Inside the principal range is a roof with wind braced side purlins, and internal arched bracing. The cross-wing has internal tension bracing and a window with ovolo and small cavetto moulded main mullions, with diamond set slender mullions in between, and where main mullions are rebated for glazing. The cross-wing features lamb's tongue chamfer stops on its exposed joists, while the main range’s ground-floor fireplace lintel displays bar and step stops on the timber. A late 18th/early 19th century timber-framed extension is located at the north-east, along with a 20th-century extension at the rear.