Woodlands

Woodlands is a house dating back to the 16th century, with later 20th-century additions. It is constructed from timber framing, brick, and breeze blocks, with a flat, machine-made tile roof. The house is arranged in an L-shape.

The south-facing facade features a projecting gabled wing with a 20th-century timber-framed appearance on the first floor, containing a central casement window with 4x3 panes. The ground floor is cement-rendered with a central 20th-century bow window of four lights with 2x3 panes. The gable is weatherboarded. To the north, a recessed range is finished with breeze block rendering and contains an early 20th-century casement window with coloured leaded lights and a two-leaved glazed door, each light with 3x4 panes. The south elevation of the east-west range has refaced timber framing on the first floor, with replacement middle rails fixed with 20th-century bolts and washers. The ground floor is rendered with breeze blocks. Three casement windows are on the first floor, and two on the ground floor. The rear of the house has been extensively replaced and refaced, with principal posts emphasised. The south end has a weatherboarded gable and a 20th-century two-light casement window with 4x3 panes. The north end includes a flat-roofed 20th-century porch with a glazed door and windows with 2x3 panes.

The interior is undergoing renovation and much of the ground floor has been removed. The first floor retains two ranges at right angles, each with a late, rudimentary crown post roof. The east-west range has a collar purlin with step stops and a face halved and bladed scarf; it is a three-bay structure with external stud-type bracing. The north-south range has been cut down on the north side. Though the exterior suggests a hall house with a "cross passage" bay, there’s no evidence of service doors, and the tie-beam at the cross passage-hall junction shows mortices for a partition. It appears that the east-west cross-wing was built against an existing north-south two-storey range. Construction likely occurred around 1525/50 and 1570/80.