Woodend House Including Barn

Woodend House, which incorporates a former barn, dates in part to the 18th century, with elements possibly from the early 18th century, and later alterations and extensions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rainwater heads on the rear of the house are dated ITE 1761. The building was associated with the Townsend family. The front of the house is constructed of red brick with an offset brick plinth and a balustraded parapet of stone and render. The rear is primarily brick, with some flint. The roof is covered in plain tiles, and brick chimneys are present. The house is two storeys high and has eight bays, with the left bay being an addition. A pediment sits over bays 3, 4, and 5, featuring blind roundels. The windows are 3-pane sashes with gauged heads. A half-glazed door in bay 4 is topped with a semi-circular fanlight and sits beneath a gauged brick arch with painted stone imposts and keyblock, sheltered by a wooden porch with Doric columns and entablature. Bay 7 has a similar arch over a former doorway, now containing a window. The left gable has a pedimented parapet with a blind roundel, an arched sash window to the first floor, and a 19th-to-20th century canted bay window below. A barn, likely dating to the 18th century, is attached to the rear of the house by a 20th-century link wing and was converted to residential use in the late 1970s. The barn features a timber frame and weatherboard cladding with a flint and chalk plinth, a plain tile roof, and 20th-century wooden casement windows. Inside the house, an early-to-mid 18th-century staircase has turned balusters, a pulvinated string, and a moulded handrail.