Woodside

Woodside is a villa built in 1827, likely adapted from an 18th century original, designed in the cottage ornee style. It has an L-shaped plan with a central section flanked by two irregular wings and a courtyard. The exterior features harled stone with painted margins.

The central section is two stories high with three symmetrical bays. It has a central doorway on the south side, which is a two-leaf glazed door with a later timber porch, flanked by windows. The first floor has three windows, with the central one being arched and featuring tracery. The north elevation includes a central stair window, symmetrically flanked by two windows on each floor, and a door at the west corner with a sloping hood.

The west wing is also two stories tall, featuring a gable on the south side with a French window and Y-tracery set within a moulded pointed arch, along with a simple window on the first floor. The west elevation is irregular, with three ground floor windows and two on the first floor, one of which breaks the eaves in a gabled dormerhead topped with a simple finial.

The east wing is a single-storey pavilion with canted windows on the south side and a single window at the rear.

The courtyard is enclosed on the west by a crenellated wall that has a string course and ocular panels. It is accessed through a large archway with a two-leaf diagonally-boarded door, beneath a castellated dovecot that features corner bartisans. The northern and eastern quadrants have been redeveloped.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, without horns, mostly featuring lying panes, predominantly in a 12-pane configuration, though there are 16 or 8-pane windows in the east wing and vertical 12-pane windows at the rear of the central section. The stair window has a glazed border.

The roof is covered in graded grey slate, generally gabled, but piended on the east wing. The central section has a single skew, with decorative bargeboarding and overhanging eaves on the west wing, while the front eaves of the central section are cantilevered. The chimney stacks are mostly made of ashlar, with some alterations, particularly the tall stack on the east wing, which has decorative octagonal cans.

The interior has been significantly altered in the 1980s, with little of the original features remaining. However, a central spiral stair and decorative plasterwork in the wings, along with later fireplaces, are still present.

Additionally, there is a gazebo, a whimsical early 19th-century construction with a religious theme. It is made of tufa rubble and decorated with pebbles and shells. The gazebo features two narrow gothic windows, although the conical thatched roof is now lost. The interior contains a cross and niches.