Description

SK 94 NW HOUGH-ON-THE-HILL FRIESTON ROAD (north side)

3/106 Hough House

G.V. II

Small country house. 1624, C18, C19, C20. Limestone ashlar, coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, pantile roofs with central ridge stack on west range and 2 ridge stacks on south range. L-plan. 2 storey and garret. Late C17 ashlar south front of west range of 3 bays with plinth and central doorway with lugged moulded architrave scrolled and beaded raised keystone, 8 panelled door and small decorated plaque, and small blocked window above. Doorway flanked by single 3 light mullion windows with moulded cornices. 2, three light mullion windows above with moulded cornices. North side of west range rebuilt in C19 but early C17 2 light mullion window to cellar intact. Early C18 rubble south range with C19 south front with plinth and first and second floor stringcourses. Ground floor 4 light mullion window with transom. First floor 4 light mullion window with 3 light mullion window in gable. North-east wall of 1624 with contemporary blocked fireplace with shallow moulded head. Over west range, a late C17 butt purlin roof intact, with C19 clasped purlin roof over south range. North gable collapsed and rebuilt in C20, datestone inscribed 1624 discovered inside but now lost. Source: D. L. Roberts, Vernacular Building in Kesteven.

Listing NGR: SK9224246395

External Links

• Wikidata Q26315745

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)