Lodge And Gates, Woodville House

The property comprises a lodge, gates, and a house, dating primarily from the early 19th century, with possible incorporation of earlier fabric. Castellated details were added in the early 19th century.

The main house is harled with ashlar dressings, and is arranged as a symmetrical entrance front with an additional wing to the left, set on a raised basement and with an attic. The central bay projects deeply and is pedimented, featuring windows on its return elevation. A central door is set under a castellated cornice at the head of a perron stair, with boldly stepped retaining walls. Flanking the door are two narrow windows; a bracketed cornice and a Venetian window are in the pediment, which is topped with a block and ball finial. Two narrow recessed bays have basement windows and castellated parapets, terminating in square, corbelled and castellated turrets. Two lower outer bays are present, alongside a single-storey wing to the left with a square, corbelled angle turret supporting a tall lantern.

The garden front features a main block with two wide bays over a raised basement. Prominent canted bay windows rise from the basement through the main floor. Two single-storey over basement and attic bays flank the main block, with a further three bays to the right. A modern projecting porch is located at basement level to the left. All walls feature castellated parapets, with angle turrets similar to those on the front elevation. The central block has a piended platform roof, while the remaining roofs are either piended or gabled and all are slated. A large, semi-parabolic roofed conservatory is set against the west wall. An extensive walled garden is present.

The lodge is single-storey with an attic, built in a “toy-castle” style. It is constructed from roughly squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings. A projecting bay has curved angles towards the gateway, with a V-plan ground floor. The bay above has a castellated design and a round-headed, pilastered window with a raised stepped and segmental hood-mould set in a crowstepped gable. A door is set in a small, castellated niche in the re-entrant angle to the right, with an additional bay to the right. Ground floor windows are round-arched with barley-sugar colonnettes. The roof has crowstepped gables and bands of fish-scale slating. The drum gate piers are in three stages with castellated set-offs and parapets, and feature round-headed doors in the bottom stage.