Woodhouse

Detached six-bay two-storey house, c.1775, possibly over basement on a T-shaped plan retaining original fenestration with two-bay two-storey side elevations, and four-bay two-storey return to west. Extended, c.1850, comprising three-bay two-storey double-pile lower service block to north-west. Part reroofed, c.2000. Hipped slate roofs on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) roof to service block with replacement artificial slate, c.2000, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Unpainted rendered walls (ivy-clad) to original block with unpainted fine roughcast walls to service block (some sections possibly replacement, c.2000). Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills. 6/6 and 9/6 timber sash windows to original block with 3/6, 6/6, and 9/6 timber sash windows to service block. Elliptical-headed door opening to right ground floor with fluted Doric doorcase supporting frieze and cornice, timber panelled door, and spoked fanlight. Square-headed door opening to return with glazed timber double doors, and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.

A well-composed substantial house incorporating Classical proportions on an almost symmetrical plan. The composition is distinguished by the discreet placement of the door opening to one corner where a grander treatment to the entrance bay might normally have been expected in a house of this scale. Very well maintained, the house retains most of its original form and massing, together with important salient features and materials, both to the exterior and to the interior. Forming an important element of the local landscape, the house is of additional importance for its associations with the Uniacke and Beresford families.