Woodville

Woodville is a house built around 1840 for the Ellice family, with an extension added around 1900. The building is constructed of stucco and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall with a projecting centre and an attic, resting on a plinth that features a heavy moulded plaster cornice and a parapet above the mansard roof. The roof has three flat-roofed dormers and chimney stacks at both ends.

The house has a regular arrangement of windows, with five glazing bar sashes on the first floor and four cross windows with margin lights on the ground floor. All windows have moulded architraves, and the ground floor windows are adorned with flying cornices and sunk panels between the two floors. The central entrance door consists of six sunk panels and is flanked by sidelights and a traceried elliptical fanlight, all set within a large fluted Tuscan porch that has seven moulded steps and baluster-shaped iron rails.

To the left, there is a recessed two-storey wing from around 1900, which features chimney stacks at the end and details that mimic those of the main block. The right return has blank window spaces. At the rear, there is a projecting oriel.

Inside, the house boasts an elliptical geometric staircase with a wreathed rail, twisted iron balusters, and a bracketed string, illuminated by an oval cupola with an acanthus cornice. The interior also features elliptically arched passage screens and arches, as well as surviving anthemion and palmette ceiling cornices and roses. The drawing room includes a central shuttered partition, and intact elements such as marble fireplaces, shuttered windows, and enriched door surrounds are present, along with cast iron central heating cases from around 1900. Originally, services were located in the cellars.