Building record 1009100000 - 5 WOOD END

Grade II. Small house. C17, altered. Timber frame with diagonal and curved braces, whitewashed brick and plaster infill. Left gable rebuilt and rendered. Asbestos slate roof with altered pitch, rendered chimneys to left gable and centre. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Barred wooden casements, 3-light to ground floor, single to first floor. Entry in central C20 gabled porch with single light to right and cast iron water pump to left. Small C20 extension of whitewashed brick with tiled roof set back to left gable. RCHM II p 207 MON 16 (B1).
Historic building recording carried out by Archaeological Solutions in May 2004 in advance of proposals to dismantle, refurbish and re-assemble the building, identified traces of cruck framing probably of the 15th to 16th century and suggests the building was originally a barn with wattle and daub walls. A floor was inserted in the 17th century and in the 19th century stairs, further flooring, internal walls and brick infilling were added. The cruck frame may have been removed when the building was re-roofed. Map evidence suggests that the building was possibly in use as a Quaker meeting house in 1831. The building underwent further alteration in the 20th century and by 1910 appears to have been in use as two cottages (B2).
The cottage at Wood End, Nash, dates to the 15th or 16th century and probably originated as a cruck-framed barn. In the 17th century the building was converted to a cottage and documentary evidence suggests that by the 19th century the building was in use as a Quaker Meeting House (B3).