Building record 15262 - Hough Manor

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57113 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Small Country House. Mid eighteenth century with nineteenth and twentieth century additions additions and alterations. Red Flemish bond brick with plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: five bays with pilaster strips to the corners and to either side of the central bay. The central door was a gabled porch above supported on moulded brackets and with an arched niche-head. To either side are single-light sash windows with stone sills and cambered heads with nineteenth century glazing. To either side of these are sash windows of similar form but of three by two nineteenth century glazed sash panes. Five similar windows to the first floor. Nineteenth century decorated boarding to eaves cut with trefoils. The four lowest courses of the building are of twentieth century engineering brick. The right and left hand sides have bands dividing the ground and first floors, and between the first floor and the attic. Extensive twentieth century additions to the rear. Interior: One ground floor room has chamfered ceiling beams and rectangular panels of raised and fielded panelling divided by a chair rail. To either side of the central nineteenth century hearth are Ionic pilasters with cabling to their corner bodies. The staircase is of six flights with square panelled newel-posts with moulded caps, column-on-vase balusters and moulded handrail.