Woodhouse was a right-handed middle-order batsman, a very occasional medium-pace bowler and, once in his first-class career, a wicketkeeper.
He played a couple of times for Somerset in 1946, and then fairly regularly in both 1947 and 1948, winning his county cap in 1947 after an innings of 109 against Leicestershire which proved to be his only first-class century.
He led the team to equal ninth in the County Championship table, and only three matches all season were drawn.
But at the end of the season he stepped down to go into the family business, and he played only a few more times in first-class cricket, finally finishing in 1953.
His own sons Mark and Anthony are now in charge of the company, which has expanded significantly in the past 25 years.