Woodlands

Woodlands is a house that dates from the 16th century and later. It features an underbuilt and rendered timber frame, with a brick main facade and brick gable ends. The roofs are covered with plaintiles and French pantiles, and the building has a T-shaped plan. The main wing has two storeys and seven bays, with three gabled two-storey projections. The side projections are likely from the 18th or 19th century, characterized by tumbled-in gables, kneelers, and platbands.

The central projection or porch, probably from the late 17th century, has an ovolo-moulded semi-circular headed doorway with a projecting keystone, flanked by pilasters that are partially hidden by a later crenellated fore-porch. A moulded brick plat-band and pilasters extend to the base of the gable, which also features tumbling-in and kneelers. The 19th-century windows include two-leaf French windows with horizontal glazing bars beneath cambered heads on the ground floor and two-light casements above.

The house has one gable end stack, one axial stack, and one stack at the junction with the cross-wing. The cross-wing is two storeys with an attic and has four bays of two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars beneath rectangular hood moulds. It features a crow-stepped central pediment with an oculus, which is continued by a crenellated parapet on either side, underlined by a moulded cornice. The crenellations and crow-steps have wooden copings, and the gable kneelers are topped with ball finials. There are also two gabled dormers with decorative barge boards and gable-end stacks.

Inside, the building has jowled wall posts with arch-braced ties, one repositioned roll-moulded spine beam, and the upper floor was originally open to the roof, which has two surviving closed trusses with clasped purlins and reduced principals. There are two internal doorways with four-centred heads, a chamfered beam with simple stops, and one original fireplace with a large wooden lintel.