Woodlands House And Stable Block Adjoining

Woodlands House and the adjoining stable block are located in Ruishton and date from around 1810, with significant remodeling and enlargement by Richard Carver around 1833 for Mrs. Lock. The house is rendered, featuring roughcast gable ends, likely over brick, and has slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles. The structure has a parallel range with coped verges and buff brick stacks on the east and west gable ends of the south front.

The house is designed in a Tudor style and has a plan that includes an entrance on the west front, with a south wing that is slightly set back. There is a wall at the north-east corner that fronts an L-plan stable yard. The west front consists of two storeys with an attic and basement, featuring three bays with all mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. The outer bays have stepped buttresses, with a blank shield on the left and a two-light window on the right. The first floor has a three-light window flanking a two-light window, while the ground floor includes a three-light mullioned and transomed canted bay window that rises from ground level, flanked by two-light basement windows.

The central porch is buttressed and gabled, featuring a shield and set back buttresses on the right return. The door frame has a Tudor arch head under a hood, with ribbed and decoratively studded double doors accessed by a flight of two steps. At the north-west corner, there is a crenellated wall with a Tudor arch head carriageway entrance leading to the stable yard. The stable block is single-storey and rendered, while the coach house is two-storey and built of brick.

The garden front has three bays with stepped buttresses and similar fenestration. It features an irregular seven-bay 20th-century wrought iron verandah on the ground floor, which is reached by a flight of four steps, and is complemented by a swept-back dwarf stone wall with Has stone piers. This property is a good example of a Tudor style villa and remains largely unaltered, aside from the addition of the verandah, reflecting the work of this local architect.