Cogshall Hall

Cogshall Hall is a country house built around 1830, constructed from red-brown brick in Flemish bond with a grey slate hipped roof. The building has two storeys and a rectangular shape, featuring five windows on the entrance front, seven on the right side, and five on the left side. An early 20th-century kitchen wing with a flat roof has been added to the rear. The exterior includes a plain plinth and a first-floor band, a moulded cornice, and a plain stone parapet.

At the front, there is a projecting tetrastyle unfluted Ionic portico with a straight entablature, and a similar distyle portico is located at the center of the right side. The doorway on the left side is framed by a stone architrave. Each entrance has part-glazed double doors, with the front door being a facsimile replacement, and overlights featuring looped oval centerpieces intersected by radial bars. The windows are 12-pane recessed sashes, with those above the entrances having stone architraves, while others feature flat gauged-brick arches and projecting stone cills. The left side has tripartite windows flanking the doorway, and there are four symmetrically placed brick chimneys.

Inside, the hall features inner doors and overlights similar to the outer doors, along with a pair of Ionic columns. A central corridor leads to the rear, with one front room on each side of the hall and a suite of rooms to the right of the corridor. There is a dogleg stair and one rear room to the left of the corridor. The principal rooms boast impressive plaster cornices adorned with floral, foliar, and fruit motifs. The two front rooms have well-crafted panelled plaster ceilings, with one featuring an overmantel supported by two dancing maidens in marble. The stair has an open string with shaped brackets, a turned and carved baluster, and a stick baluster for each step, with winders between the flights, a mahogany rail, and a wreath. There is a finely detailed basket archway between the stair landing and the front corridor, and the bedrooms have good plaster cornices, though less ornate than those downstairs. The cellars have brick-vaulted ceilings and ventilated wooden doors. Cogshall Hall is a well-preserved example of a late Georgian country house.