The Wings

The West Wing

Woodstock House

Photograph of Woodstock House

Woodstock House

Woodstock House

Photograph of Woodstock House

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The west wing contained the kitchen, which incorporated both the basement level and the first floor, and had a high ceiling (19'1'') -  a precaution against the risk of fire. A scullery was adjacent to the kitchen. Access to the servants' quarters on the first floor was via a staircase to the west of basement level. These rooms could not be seen from the front of the house, but from the yard side a series of windows lightening these six rooms could be seen. This floor had no bathroom but did contain a W.C.

East Wing

Woodstock House, Rear Elevation

Photograph of the Rear Elevation of Woodstock House

Woodstock House, Rear Elevation

Woodstock House, Rear Elevation

Photograph of the Rear Elevation of Woodstock House

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The East Wing contained the potato store, which occupied half of the basement level of the wing; this was accessible from the outside, and not linked via doors to any other part of the wing. The west end of the basement level of the east wing contained two rooms, one of which had a furnace and acted as a boiler room. Like the west wing, the east wing was also not vaulted, with the ground floors above each wing supported upon a timber floor. The ground floor of the east wing, also like the floor below, was linked to the main house by a long corridor called the 'Bachelor's Gallery'. The whole of the west end of this floor contained the dining room. The three remaining rooms served as dormitories for male guests and a billiard room.

Wing Facades

Woodstock House and Wings

Photograph of Woodstock House and Wings

Woodstock House and Wings

Woodstock House and Wings

Photograph of Woodstock House and Wings

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The front facades of the wings added to the house in the early nineteenth century are in keeping with the original mid-eighteenth century house. The ground floor limestone Gibbsian surrounds are the same as the ones on the ground floor and first floors of the main house, while the basement windows with plain limestone surrounds and single keystones were similar to the second floor windows of the main block. The basement windows originally had iron bars for protection - some survive today.

Each wing had a central tripartite window, surmounted above the roof cornice (a moulded projection which crowns a wall, building or arch) by a frieze supporting a pediment. The frieze (a deep band, plain or decorated with sculpture or painting, usually extending around the upper walls of a room below the cornice) is plain in design except for a recessed rectangular panel. Architectural drawings indicate that these pediments (a low pitched gable which completes the end of the sloping roof) were surmounted by weather vanes, but no photographs confirm this.

The rear of the east wing faced into the gardens, but was hidden from view by the trees flanking the house. The east wing had no rear windows and was approached from the garden by a flight of stone steps. The rear of the west wing faced into the yard.