Wood End House

SU 51 SE SOBERTON 9/3 Wood End House II House. Once a cottage of C17 origin, but enlarged in the late C18 and again in the mid C19. Walls of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, parapet with coping and brick dentilled cornice: another section of Flemish bond with blue headers and also Flemish Garden Wall bond with blue headers: some tile- hanging. The main block is late C18 with some early C19 details, symmetrical south west front elevation of two storeys, five above two windows, those of the ground-floor placed centrally beneath the two outer pairs of the 1st floor. Sashes in reveals, the larger ground-floor lights reaching to floor level. Door case with thin open pediment on coupled modillion brackets, with console brackets above panelled pilasters, arched opening with plain fanlight, and 6-panelled door. The south-east elevation has a long wing (including the oldest part of the structure) extending to the north east, with tile-hanging above brickwork and sashes above casements, the south west side (the end of the main front) having a French window beneath a concave metal canopy. The north-west elevation shows a gabled recess between the mid C19 north-east side and the end of the main block, with a stucco porch filling the gap, with a pierced parapet, pilasters, and half- glazed coupled doors.

Listing NGR: SU6156414731