Description

TM 13 NW
4/23

COPDOCK
LONDON ROAD
Woodsend and No 1 Woodsend (formerly listed as Woodend)

22.2.55
II
House, divided in two. Circa 1500 and later, extended and restored 1980's. Exposed timber frame, plain tile roofs. The hall (Woodsend) close studded to front, large framing to rear, the crosswing (No 1 Woodsend) rendered to rear ground floor. Hall, 6-light square mullioned and transomed window, restored; 2-light casement dormer above. C20 porch and door in cross passage position. 3-light casement in reputedly C20 wing to right. Rear, similar hall window. 2 bay hall has tall cross quadrate crown post roof with thin 4-way bracing. Cross passage with pair of 3 or 4-centre arched doorways, the spandrels to that to right replaced. Room in position of service wing, said to have been rebuilt, contains inserted panelling. Inserted stack against passage is partly mutilated. Inserted hall ceiling has square joists. Rear passage doorway with 4-centred head, probably restored.

No 1 Woodsend. 2 cell crosswing, gable to road 2 and 2½ storeys. Arch braced frame, some braces replaced. Axial brick stack. Roadside ground and first floor C20 oriels. Small inserted light to C20 stairs. Left return, central porch with C20 door in lobby entry position. 3-light diamond mullion window to left, leaded C20 oriel to right and above at first floor level, small light over porch. Rear,rendered ground floor has C20 door and window. First floor 3-light diamond mullion window to right, square light to left. Two small attic windows above. Interior. Stop chamfered beams and horizontal joists. Large open brick fireplace with chamfered arises. Stairs formerly behind stack. Remains of blocked window between the two ranges. Remains of open truss by stack.

Listing NGR: TM1075739788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26288567

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)