House. Dated E.S. 1619 on fireplace. Timber frame covered with colourwashed render. Weatherboarding to top of street gable. C20 pantile roof, brick chimneys to right gable and between left-hand bays. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Right-hand bays have paired barred wooden casements to ground floor and 3-light wooden casements to first floor under raised eaves. Lobby entry between left-hand bays has C20 gabled porch. Left bay obscured by C20 extension in colourwashed brick with slate roof at right-angles to main block. Rear has 3-light window with chamfered C17 wooden mullions.
Interior: entry, spiral staircase and fireplace in line. Curved wind-braces in roof.
English Heritage
Mrs P Willis
1982 Nash WI Scrapbook.
Conveyance between Minnie Mildren (owner of Wood End Farmhouse) and John Robert Tomkins and Bessie Winifred Tomkins referencing an 84 square yards piece of land (with a depth of 10 feet) adjoining the garden of Wood End Cottage.
June 1967
Conveyance between Minnie Mildren (owner of Wood End Farmhouse) and Leslie William Wickson referencing land totalling 58 acres, 1 rood and 7 perches (field numbers 145, 143, 144 and 11).
31st May 1966
Mr and Mrs L Willis
1965 Nash WI Scrapbook.
Conveyance between Minnie Mildren (owner of Wood End Farmhouse) and M. J. Jeaves (Developments) Ltd referencing land ‘Part of O.S. No149 (estimated at 2 roods and 6 perches) having a frontage to High Street, Nash.’
27th June 1961
Conveyance between Minnie Mildren (owner of Wood End Farmhouse) and John Richard Percival Hedley referencing the ‘Easternmost portion of Enclosure 149’.
14th November 1960
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address |
| 1950 | Bennett | Lilian M | Wood End Farm |
| 1950 | Bennett | Thomas | Wood End Farm |
1950 Register of Electors
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address |
| 1945 | Bennett | Lillian M | Wood End Farm |
| 1945 | Bennett | Thomas | Wood End Farm |
1945 Register of Electors
Henry White acknowledges the repayment of £700 plus interests and costs.
6th April 1943
Eleanor BAILEY, Mrs, Farmer Wood End
1939 Kelly’s Directory
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address | Absent voter | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification | Juror |
| 1935 | Bailey | Eleanor | Wood End Farm | Rw | Dw | ||
| 1935 | Bailey | George | Wood End Farm | R | O |
1935 Register of Electors
Minnie Mildren (owner of Wood End Farmhouse, wife of Harold Armarn Mildren of 5 Culvers Way, Carshalton, Surrey) borrows £700 (at a rate of £5 per centum annually, to be paid on 25th September and 25th March annually) from Henry White, blacksmith of North Marston.
25th March 1935
Minnie Mildren (the only child of Joyce Elizabeth Simmons) has purchased an annuity to pay the £10 annuity to Frederick William Cooper (part of the will of Edwin Dormer); Minnie takes ownership of Wood End Farm subject to the payment of £240 (plus interest) to the Lands Improvement Company.
23rd March 1935
Benjamin George BAILEY, Farmer Wood End
1935 Kelly’s Directory
Death of Joyce Elizabeth Simmons; Jill Dormer and Sidney Prudden Wigley appointed as trustees; Minnie Mildren, her only child, inherits her interest in Woodend Farmhouse.
5th January 1931
Benjamin George BAILEY, Farmer Wood End
1931 Kelly’s Directory
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address | Absent voter | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification | Juror |
| 1930 | Bailey | Eleanor | Wood End Farm | Rw | Dw | ||
| 1930 | Bailey | George | Wood End Farm | R | O | ||
| 1930 | Ridgway | Leonard | Wood End Farm | Y | NM |
1930 Register of Electors
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address | Absent voter | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification | Juror |
| 1925 | Ridgway | Alfred | Wood End Farm | R | |||
| 1925 | Ridgway | Leonard | Wood End Farm | Y | NM | ||
| 1925 | Ridgway | Maria | Wood End Farm | HO | HO | ||
| 1925 | Ridgway | Thomas, jnr | Wood End Farm | R | O | J | |
| 1925 | Ridgway | William James | Wood End Farm | R |
1925 Register of Electors
Thomas RIDGWAY Jun, Farmer Wood End
1924 Kelly’s Directory
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address | Absent voter | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification |
| 1922 | Ridgway | Leonard | Wood End Farm | Y | NM | |
| 1922 | Ridgway | Thomas, jnr | Wood End Farm | R | O | |
| 1922 | Ridgway | Maria | Wood End Farm | HO | HO | |
| 1922 | Ridgway | William James | Wood End Farm | R |
1922 Register of Electors
Edwin Dormer died 2nd August 1921 but paid off the £500 (plus interest) in his lifetime, so the executors (Ann Jill Dormer (of Thornborough), widow and Sidney Prudden Wigley (Land Agent of Winslow)) want the land and property reconveyed to them. Land is as described in document dated 23rd March 1886 with the addition of “in the occupation of William Reeve afterwards of William Sear then of Lewis John Chapman and now of Thomas Ridgway.”
29th September 1921
| Number | Surname | Forename | Residence | Absent voter | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification |
| 23 | Dormer | Edwin | Wood End | R | O | |
| 24 | Dormer | Ann Till | Wood End | HO | HO |
1918 Register of Electors
| Year | Surname | Forename | Address | Abode | Qualification | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification | Parochial elector |
| 1915 | Dormer | Edwin | Wood End Farm | Nash | Land and tenement. | Y | Y | |
| 1915 | Dormer | Edwin | Wood End Farm | Nash | Freehold house and land. | Y | Y |
1915 Register of Electors
Edwin Dormer, Farmer
1915 Kelly’s Directory
| Address from census return | Address from Enumerator’s summary | Number of rooms | Forename | Surname | Relation | Males | Females | Condition | Completed years of present marriage | Total children born alive | Children still living | Children who have died | Personal Occupation | Industry or service with which worker is connected. | Employer, Worker or Own account | Working at Home | Where born | Nationality of every person born in a foreign country | Infirmity | |
| 55 | Nash | 6 | Edwin | Dormer | Head | 75 | Married | Farmer | Employer | Bucks, England | ||||||||||
| 55 | Nash | 6 | Ann Jill | Dormer | Wife | 60 | Married | 31 | None | Hook Norton, Oxon | ||||||||||
| 55 | Nash | 6 | Mary Jane | Dormer | Niece | 47 | Single | Monthly Nurse | Own account | Thornton, Bucks |
1911 census
Edwin Dormer, Farmer
1911 Kelly’s Directory
Occupiers – Edwin Dormer; Owners – Edwin Dormer; Nash, Stony Stratford; House, buildings and land; Woodend
Estimated Extent – house – 0.75 rods; land – 101 acres 15 rods.
Gross Annual Value – house – £9; buildings – £9; land – £109
Rateable Value – house £7/5/-; buildings – £7/5/-; land – £102/10/-
1910 Valuation Office Survey
Edwin Dormer, Farmer
1903 Kelly’s Directory
Edwin Dormer (of Thornborough) borrows £500 (at a rate of £3 15s per centum annually, to be paid on 13th June and 13th December) from Annie Coleman (wife of Tom Coleman of Banbury, grocer) and William Henry Abbotts of Banbury (solicitor’s clerk). Wood End Farm is security; document refers to the land described in document dated 23rd March 1886.
13th December 1902
William Samuel Clements died on 21st May 1889; William Sear died 26th November 1893; Sophia Clements sells Wood End Farm to Edwin Dormer for £2,440. Names Lewis John Chapman. Description of the land the same as that dated 14th April 1880.
12th December 1902
Henry Pettit enfranchised for the sum of £50. 11s. 7d. Description the same as that dated 14th April 1880 with the addition of ‘All which said premises were formerly in the tenure of occupation of the said William Reeve deceased afterwards of the said William Sear and now of Lewis Chapman’. Property now freehold.
27th September 1902
(Possible, not certain)
| No. of Schedule | Place | Number of rooms occupied if under 5 | Forename | Surname | Relation | Condition | Males | Females | Profession or Occupation | Employer, Worker or Own account | Working at Home | Where born | Disability |
| 3 | Wood End Farm | Jonah | Oldfields | Head | Married | 38 | Working Bailiff | Worker | East Lexham, Norfolk | ||||
| 3 | Wood End Farm | Ellen | Oldfields | Wife | Married | 30 | Banbury, Oxfordshire | ||||||
| 3 | Wood End Farm | Ellen M | Oldfields | Daughter | Single | 4 | Battersea, London | ||||||
| 3 | Wood End Farm | Martha | Oldfields | Daughter | Single | 1 | Addington, Bucks |
1901 census
Admission of Henry Pettit as a tenant of the Manor of Whaddon and Nash.
24th January 1894
| No. of Schedule | Place | Rooms | Forename | Surname | Relation | Condition | Males | Females | Job | Employer | Employed | Neither Employer nor Employed | WHERE BORN | Disability |
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | William | Sear | Head | Widower | 74 | Farmer | Shenley, Bucks | ||||||
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | William R. | Sear | Son | Married | 26 | Farmer | x | Woughton on the Green, Bucks | |||||
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | Sarah M. | Sear | Daughter | Married | 37 | Middleton Cheney, Northants | |||||||
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | William R. | Sear | Grandson | 4 | Nash | ||||||||
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | William G. | Bitananer ? | Servant | Single | 17 | x | Sumfield, Beds | ||||||
| 58 | Neeves Farm, Wood End | Walter J. | Maikram ? | Servant | Single | 21 | x | Broughton, Bucks |
1891 census
William SEAR, Farmer ‘Wood End’
1891 Kelly’s Directory
| Year | Surname | Forename | Property situated | Abode | Qualification | Parliamentary qualification | Local Government qualification |
| 1890 | Sear | William | Wood End | Nash | House and land. | Y |
1890 Register of Electors
William SEAR, Farmer ‘Wood End’
1887 Kelly’s Directory
William Sear borrows £3,000 (at a rate of £4 per centum annually, to be paid on 23rd March and 23rd September annually) from William Samuel and Sophia Clements of Mursley. Document refers to the land described in document dated 14th April 1880 named as (1) Cottage, Farm yard and orchard (2) the Grove (3) 26 acres (4) Nashbrook Ploughing (5) another Cottage and Paddock (6) Home Close and Homestead (7) Church Path Field (8) Little Field and (8) Wood End Ploughing. William Sear undertakes to keep the property insured against loss and fire.
23rd March 1886
Admission of William Sear to be a tenant of the Manor of Whaddon and Nash; pays a heriot of £ 1. 1s. 1d., a fine of £6. 11s. 6d, and an annual rent of £1. 9s. 91/2d.
31st October 1882
Surrender of John Reeve, William Reeve and William James Chennells as tenants of the Manor of Whaddon and Nash.
31st October 1882
| No of Schedule | Place | Forename | Surname | Relation | Condition | Males | Females | Job | Where born | Disability |
| 52 | Wood End | William | Sear | Head | Married | 63 | Farmer | ?? | ||
| 52 | Wood End | Mary | Sear | Wife | Married | 62 | Whaddon | |||
| 52 | Wood End | William Richard | Sear | Son | Unmarried | 16 | Farmers Son | Woughton on the Green |
1881 census
William Sear paid £2000 for the purchase of Woodend Farmhouse from John Reeve of Stony Stratford (grocer), William Reeve of Passenham (farmer and grazier) and William James Chennells late of Amersham and now of Naseby Northant (farmer). Property included the adjoining close; sward ground; two small spinneys; plots of land in Little Hill and Wood End Fields; five ancient Inclosures formerly the property of Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard Bt, William King, William Reeve deceased (father of said William Reeve). These inclosures adjoined each other and are bounded on the NW and N by land belonging to William Reeve deceased, to the NE and E by land belonging to William Selby Lowndes, to the S by land belonging to Messieurs Mumford, to W and S by land belonging to William King and now Joseph King, and by the new gate road.
14th April 1880
(Possible, not certain)
| No. of Schedule | Place | Forename | Surname | Relation | Condition | Males | Females | Job | Where born | Disability |
| 76 | Wood End, Farm House | Thomas | Briar | Head | Married | 65 | Farm Bailif | Nash, Bucks | ||
| 76 | Wood End, Farm House | Cathrine | Briar | Wife | Married | 60 | Mursley, Bucks | |||
| 76 | Wood End, Farm House | Elizabeth Ann | Briar | Daughter | Unmarried | 28 | Servant – Domestic | Nash, Bucks | ||
| 76 | Wood End, Farm House | William James | Briar | Son | Unmarried | 21 | Farm Labourer | Nash, Bucks | ||
| 76 | Wood End, Farm House | Selina Hariet | Briar | Daughter | Unmarried | 19 | Scholler | Nash, Bucks |
1871 census
(Possible, not certain)
Thomas Bryar, Farm bailiff
1869 Kelly’s Directory
(Possible, not certain)
| No. of Schedule | Place | Forename | Surname | Relationship | Condition | Males | Females | Job | Where Born | Disability |
| 81 | Thos | Brier | Head | Married | 57 | Ag. Labourer | Nash | |||
| 81 | Catherine | Brier | Wife | Married | 50 | Lace Maker | Nash | |||
| 81 | Jane | Brier | Daughter | Single | 15 | Lace Maker | Nash | |||
| 81 | Willm | Brier | Son | Single | 12 | Scholar | Nash | |||
| 81 | Selina | Brier | Daughter | 8 | Scholar | Nash |
1861 census
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