Coach House Cottage Woodcote

This is a house with an added cottage and coach house, dating to the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The northern half (No. 163) is partly constructed of flint with exposed timber framing on the first floor, and partly of painted white handmade brick; the Coach-house Cottage and coach house are also of painted white brick. No. 163 has a red tile roof, while the other parts have slate roofs.

No. 163 is in an L-shape, with a recessed wing at the right-hand end. It has two low storeys and three bays, including the wing, and features a plinth, a modern gabled porch, a three-course band to the centre bay, and low six-pane sash windows on each floor. To the right of the porch, the wing is of flint at ground floor, with moulded brick coping, and timber framing above, displaying exposed posts, rail, tie-beam, and queen struts. It also has similar sash windows in the gable wall; the return wall has the wooden frame of a blocked two-light window. A large gabled bay extends to the left end of the house, with a six-pane sash window and a blocked segmental-headed doorway at ground floor, a sixteen-pane sash at first floor, a small arched niche near the apex, and 19th-century ornamental bargeboards. A chimney is located at the junction with the wing.

The interior of the wing contains two lateral beams with cyma-stopped small chamfer, an inglenook fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressummer in the partition wall to the main range, and a chamfered brick chamber fireplace above. The main range also features an inglenook fireplace and, at the rear of the chimney stack, a wall-post with a large mortise in the outer side.

The Coach-house Cottage to the left has two bays, the first with a four-pane window and a small gabled porch at ground floor, and a cross-window casement above a wide gable with bargeboards matching those of No. 163. The second bay has a transomed six-light window and a low six-pane sash window above. The coach-house block, attached at right angles, has large garage doors in the first bay, a door, and three segmental-headed windows at ground floor, and a former loading door at first floor, altered as a top-hung casement window.