Woodlands Cottage

Woodlands Cottage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely dating from the 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It was extended, probably in the 18th or 19th century. The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble or cob and features a water reed thatched roof with hipped ends and eyebrow eaves over the front windows. There are rendered axial and lateral stacks.

The house has a three-room plan, with the lower end on the left. The original structure consists of two rooms; the lower left-hand room is heated by a lateral stack at the back, while the right-hand room has a gable end (now axial) stack, likely accompanied by a newel staircase. The entrance is directly into the right-hand room of the original house, although it was probably originally accessed through a central passage. An extension, probably of one-room plan, was added at the higher right-hand end in the 18th or 19th century, along with a small single-storey outshut at the lower left-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical six-window south front. The first floor features small 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars and sills on either side, while there are 20th-century wooden oriels with casements and glazing bars. The doorway is located to the left of centre and has a 20th-century glazed door, along with a late 19th or early 20th-century porch that has a hipped slate roof. To the right of centre, there is a recess on the ground floor that may have originally served as a bread oven for the axial stack. The thatch of the main roof sweeps down over the single-storey outshut on the lower left-hand end, which has a hipped roof and a 20th-century plank door. The rear elevation features only two small windows to the left, which belong to the 18th or 19th-century extension, and a large rendered shaft for the lateral stack on the right. At the right-hand end, the wall continues to a gateway topped with a thatched roof and a reused chamfered four-centred arch stone doorway head. The interior was not inspected.