Hough Hall

House. Dating to the 17th century, Hough Hall was extensively altered in the early 19th century and again in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a random bond pattern, with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high with an attic. The front of the house has three bays arranged symmetrically. The central doorway features a moulded wooden surround with pilaster strips supporting dosserets and an open pediment containing a fanlight. The doorway has a 20th-century half-glazed oak door. To either side of the doorway are sash windows with 4 panes in each sash. There are three similar windows on the first floor. A moulded wooden cornice runs along the top of the wall, behind which are two 3-light hipped dormer windows. A chimney stack is located to the right of the centre of the roof, with gable stacks at each end. The roof tiles slope at the gable ends. The right-hand gable has ashlar coping. To the left is an early 20th-century addition, with a single-light window to the right and, to the left of this, a projecting bay with two blank round-headed arches. The arches have ashlar quoins, voussoirs, and bands at the springing level and the lower body. Above these arches, a 4-light casement window is set within a gable, and a canted 3/4-octagonal oriel window is situated at the corner of the building. The interior includes a 17th-century oak run-through panelling in a passage, featuring a decorative band of blind running arches. The staircase has rectangular newels and moulded balusters, which appear to have been adapted to their present setting. The dining room contains chamfered ceiling beams and 18th-century raised and fielded oak panelling, with a chair rail, a cyma-moulded cornice, and two doors. The room also features an early 20th-century bolection-moulded fire surround and mantel shelf, supported on acanthus-moulded brackets. Two ground floor and two first floor rooms have raised and fielded pine panelling, moulded chimney pieces, and hob grates. Six and eight-panel pine doors are found throughout the house.