Woodhouse Copse

Woodhouse Copse is a house with an attached pergola and summerhouse, built between 1924 and 1926 by Oliver Hill for W Deane Barnes Brand, located around the base of a windmill, which provides the main post for the spiral staircase. The property has small later 20th-century additions to the east and west. Amy Barnes Brand, the owner, was an actress and supporter of Hill's work. The house is a large cottage ornee, roughly L-shaped, constructed mainly of brick with some wavy-edged weatherboarding on the garden front and side elevation. Originally, it had a thatched roof, which was removed at the time of the survey, and features a tall brick chimneystack.

The exterior is two storeys with attics and has irregular fenestration of wooden leaded light windows, including a large mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, a curved window for the staircase, and a window with a pane engraved with a verse commemorating the building of the house. The garden front includes seven-light windows for the living room and main bedroom. The front elevation has an arched doorcase with an oak plank door. There is an attached wall with stone pergola piers and a circular brick summerhouse topped with a thatched roof.

Inside, the house features a circular brick spiral staircase built around the main shaft of the windmill, a large living room with an open fireplace that has a wooden bressumer and tiled fire-back, built-in window seats and bookshelves, a kitchen with four wooden plank doors, a main bedroom with built-in cupboards, exposed beams, and a bathroom with a blue mosaic bath. The property also has steep attic stairs and plank doors with good quality ironwork throughout.