Wychwood

Wychwood is a house that has been divided into two dwellings, dating from the early 16th century, with a front added in the mid 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with dressed quoins and features a gabled stone slate roof. It has late 18th and 19th century brick ridge stacks, along with a rear lateral external stack made of stone and finished in brick. The layout consists of a three-unit plan with a through-passage and a rear left wing. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has an eight-window range.

The left side has a five-window range with a flat stone arch over a 19th century four-panelled door located in the right bay, alongside a mid 18th century six-panelled door that has scroll brackets beneath a broken pediment. There are timber lintels over late 18th century six-pane sash windows, and two gabled roof dormers with 19th century casements. The right side features a three-window range with a 19th century four-panelled door (two glazed) with a similar pediment, and six-pane and eight-pane sash windows. A bay to the right, which was formerly a cart entry, has six-pane sashes.

At the rear, there is a 16th century pointed chamfered door leading to the through-passage and a two-light stone-mullioned round-arched window with chamfered edges. Additionally, there is an early 19th century service range attached to No. 25. The rear wing, associated with No. 23, is built from similar materials and is two storeys high with a four-window range, featuring stone-mullioned hollow-chamfered and casement-moulded windows of up to three lights, along with a large stone lateral stack on the left.

Inside, the property has stop-chamfered and boxed beams throughout. No. 25, on the right, includes a 19th century panelled dado, while No. 23, on the left, features mid 19th century straight-flight stairs with barley-twist balusters. The roof structure includes a queen-post roof with a closed truss above the through-passage and an arch-braced collar-truss with windbraces above the former Great Chamber on the left side of the passage. The rear wing has a four-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins.