Woodhill House

SANDON WOODhILL ROAD 1. 5213 Woodhill House TL 70 SE 14/480 10.4.67. II

1. A Cl8 brick house with extensive later C18, mid Cl9 and late C19 extensions on the north and south ends. All the variously dated extensions are built in a similar style, The main block is of red and blue brick with a parapet, a dentilled cornice between the lst and 2nd storeys and a raised band between the ground and 1st storeys. 5 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames, with segmental heads. The doorway has a 6-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight with fan glazing bars and a Tuscan doorcase with plain columns and a modillion pediment. The roof of the main block is tiled, hipped at the north and south ends. On the north of the main block is a small 2 storeyed wing of 1 window range with a parapet and a Dutch gable on the west and east fronts, On the west front the gable has a circular panel with the initials S C C above the date 1798. It is said to have been built by Samuel Charles Carne as an officers mess in the napoleonic Wars. On the lst storey there is a 5-light lunette and on the ground storey a Venetian window set in an arched recess. The dentilled cornice and raised brick band which run between the storeys of the main block are darned across the wings to the north and south. To the south of the main block is a 2 storeyed wing of similar design to that on the north but with the Initials F C R above the date 1868 in the Dutch gable on the west front. A late C19 block was added to the south of this, with a small wing of 1 window range on each fade projecting on the west front at the north end and a block of 4 window range with a 3-light semi-circular headed window under a Dutch gable at the south end, with the initials K A R above the date 1893. Roofs tiled.

Listing NGR: TL7678504548