Woodsden

Woodsden is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations from the 17th century and additional changes in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hanging, featuring some exposed framing on the return and rear elevations. The roof is plain tiled and hipped. The house has two storeys with a central stack. The first floor has a regular arrangement of two three-light wooden casements and a central two-light casement, while the ground floor features two tripartite sash windows. There is a central boarded door set within a half-timbered gabled porch that has a moulded bargeboard. To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a sash window and a truncated stack at the end. At the rear, there is a lower half-hipped two-storey wing, with small additional single-storey extensions from the 19th century in English bond. A large 17th-century arch offset stack projects from the rear left, with its base located within the 19th-century extension. The right return has exposed studding, which was under restoration at the time of the survey.

Inside, the main range has its full frame visible, featuring ogee-bracket moulded beams and others with tongue-stopped chamfers. There are inglenook fireplaces and a renewed clasped purlin roof. The rear range contains moulded beams, many of which have been re-used from an earlier frame, with window mullion mortices, chamfers, and mouldings all dated inverted to 1627. The entire frame is iron-strapped from the 17th or 18th century and was under restoration at the time of the survey. Additionally, there is a bakehouse attached to the rear stack, which originally had exterior hatches, a bread oven, and a copper brick-lined cellar.