Description

HOUGH C.P. NEWCASTLE ROAD
SJ 75 SW
2/35 Hough Hall

12.1.67

- II*

House. C17 with extensive early C19 additions and alterations and
early C20 additions and alterations. Red random bond brick with
ashlar dressings, a plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic.
Entrance front: 3 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. C20
half-glazed oak door. To either side are sash windows of 4 x 4 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 3 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 C20 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 4-light casement window to the right with
gable over and to left of this at the corner a canted 3/4-octagonal
oriel window.
Interior: C17 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 C18 raised and fielded oak panelling with chair rail and
cyma-moulded cornice, two doors, each of 2 raised and fielded panels.
Early C20 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 C19 pine panelling with
moulded chimney pieces and hob grates. Six and eight-panel pine doors
throughout the house.

Listing NGR: SJ7083250812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q40107741

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