Building record 206/1 - Hough Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57112 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House. Seventeenth century with extensive early nineteenth century additions and alterations and early twentieth century additions and alterations. Red random bond brick with ashlar dressings, a plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: three bays symmetrically disposed. Central doorway with moulded wooden surround having pilaster strips to either side supporting dosserets and an open pediment which holds a fanlight. Twentieth century half-glazed oak door. To either side are sash windows of four by four panes with ashlar sills and wedge lintels. Three similar windows to the first floor. Moulded wooden cornice to the top of the wall above and behind which are two three light hipped dormer windows. Ridge chimney stack at right of centre and gable stacks to either end. The roof tiles rake at each gable end. The right hand gable has ashlar coping. To the left is an early twentieth century addition with single-light window at right and to left of this a projecting bay with two blank round-headed arches at right and left with ashlar quoins, voussoirs and bands at the level of the springing and to the lower body. At first floor level is a four-light casement window to the right with gable over and to left of this at the corner a canted three quarter-octagonal oriel window. Interior: Seventeenth century oak run-through panelling to the through-passage with a decorative band of blind running arches to the top. The staircase has rectangular newels and moulded balusters which appear to have been adapted to its present setting. The dining room has chamfered ceiling beams and eighteenth century raised and fielded oak panelling with chair rail and cyma-moulded cornice, two doors, each of two raised and fielded panels. Early twentieth century bolection moulded fire surround and mantel shelf supported on acanthus-moulded brackets. One ground floor and one first floor room, each with raised and fielded early nineteenth century pine panelling with moulded chimney pieces and hob grates. Six and eight-panel pine doors throughout the house.