House 40M South West Of Woodlands Farmhouse

This house, located 40 meters southwest of Woodlands Farm, dates from the early 16th century and around 1710, with a conversion to a house in the mid-19th century. The walls are primarily made of red brick, topped with an old tile roof and featuring brick stacks. It has two storeys. The northern block is from the early 16th century and is part of a larger range of an important early 16th-century house, with another section still present at Woodlands Farm. The east and west walls are constructed of thin red brick laid in English bond, displaying a diaper pattern of blue headers. On the west side, there is a visible flint rubble plinth with a stone water table moulding. The wall of this block was truncated to the south around 1710 by a rectangular building aligned differently, also made of red brick in English bond. The northern part of the building was likely open to the roof and lit by a large window in both the east and west walls, probably of the mullion and transom type found in Woodlands Farm House. The southern end appears to have had an attic added, with a blocked window featuring a segmental head above a small 2-light window that retains its original oak frame, albeit with later lights. The original roof consists of three bays and is hipped to the north, supported by collared rafter trusses with king struts. There is a panelled chimney on the north side with a rebuilt cap, and an external stack on the south gable with battered offsets and a plain shaft. The upper part of the earlier northern section was reconstructed when the 1710 block was built. In the mid-19th century, the north gable was rebuilt, possibly after the truncation of the building, and a porch was added at the northwest angle. The interior was fully floored and fitted out as a house. The windows are mostly two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, mainly under half brick segmental heads, which were introduced throughout. The building from around 1710 is likely connected to the house built at Woodlands by 'Mr Seymour of the Hanager Office', while the main part of Woodlands Farm is slightly later but probably from the same general period.