An imposing, if not elegant, red brick eighteenth-century house, composed of an eight-bay block – half of which is two-storeyed and the other half is three-storeyed. The entrance door, with a canopy upon brackets, sits uneasily at the centre of this, whilst to the right is a nineteenth-century, three-bay, three-storeyed block of equal height. Inside the house, an eighteenth-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters survives, and climbs up to the attics, whilst the main rooms have carved wooden cornices and some decorative ceiling plasterwork.

The house is said to have originally been built for Richard Jones (d. 1750)7 who had married Hannah Jones. Their own daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Lazarus Venables (d. 1813). Venables added significantly to the house and is said to have moved the entrance front to its current position, also moving the course of the road southwards away from the house. The Venables’ son, Lazarus Jones Venables (1772–1856) made further alterations to the house and acquired more land, yet, in doing so, overspent and eventually offered Woodhill for sale in 1852.

The property was finally sold in 1854 to John Lees (d. 1856), a scion of the Lees baronets of Black Rock, Dublin, for £22,000. The Lees family made extensive alterations to the house, circa 1870, to accommodate a new billiard room and dining room, and added a two-storey oriel window onto the right-hand block. At the turn of the twentieth century, the house was the seat of Lees’ son, George John Dumville Lees, President of the Caradoc Field Club, and the billiard room housed his renowned collection of taxidermy. Tragically Dumville Lees, who was Master of the Tanatside Harriers from 1884, died following an accident caused by barbed wire whilst hunting in 1906. In the twentieth century, the house lost the external details of the Victorian alterations and a single-storey Doric portico over the entrance door was also removed. Following the Second World War, Woodhill, with its park of about 100 acres, became part of the Brogyntyn estate and, until its disposal, with 93 acres, in 1971 was the Shropshire residence of Lord Harlech. The house was again offered for sale in 1987.