Woodlands

Woodlands is a house dating from the 1820s and 1830s, built of local stone rubble with brick dressings, plastered on the front and painted on the ends. It has slate roofs and end stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts topped with old pots. The house was originally planned as a double-depth structure, with two rooms wide, a central entrance hall, and a main stair between the entrance hall and a service room to the left rear. Originally, the kitchen was located in a single-storey block at the rear.

The east-facing garden front presents a symmetrical three-window arrangement, with details suggesting an intended ashlar appearance. A slate-roofed verandah, supported by slender timber posts with curving brackets and Chinese Chippendale-style trellis infill, extends across five bays and returns two bays around the right end onto the entrance front. The ground-floor windows are a mix of late 19th and early 20th-century bays containing forward pairs of 8-pane sashes, with a blind window in the centre. The first floor has 12-pane sashes with moulded stucco architraves, the outer ones featuring moulded cornices on console brackets. Deep eaves are present with a plastered soffit. The roof is gable-ended and contains two front gabled dormers.

The north-facing entrance front rises three stories and is three windows wide, though its symmetry has been disrupted by the later insertion of a 20th-century window. Windows are either blind or 12-pane sashes (one a replacement casement), set within plain stucco surrounds topped by pediment hoods resting on console brackets, all enriched with scrolls and foliage. A round-headed doorway, behind a late 19th-century glazed porch, has panelled reveals and a part-glazed six-panel door with a fanlight featuring glazing bars. A single sash window is present on the kitchen side; a stair window in the rear wall has margin glazing incorporating coloured glass. Remnants of the kitchen roof, constructed of random slate, remain.

The interior retains much of its original detail, including an open-string stair with stick balusters, panelled doors, and coved moulded cornices to the principal rooms. Original fireplaces have been removed. The roof was not inspected. According to the current owners, Woodlands was commissioned for the manager of Warfleet Brewery, which is now the Dartmouth Pottery.