Hough End Hall

Hough End Hall is a manor house that has been converted into a public house. It was built in 1596 for Sir Nicholas Mosley and has undergone alterations, including recent restoration and partial rebuilding and enlargement at the rear. The structure is made of brown brick in English bond, featuring a sandstone plinth and dressings, and has a stone slate roof. It is designed in an H-plan and stands two-and-a-half storeys tall, with a symmetrical façade that includes a central doorway with a stop-chamfered surround, which is currently covered by a 20th-century porch.

The building has renewed mullion-and-transom windows with 10 lights on the ground floor and 8 lights on the first floor, along with blind mullioned windows in the attic, featuring 2 lights in the main range and 3 lights in the wings. Some small original double-chamfered mullioned windows remain, including at both ends of the ground floor of the main range, in the re-entrant of the left wing (one on each floor), and on each side of the ground floor window of the same wing. The parapet is raised to a finialed gable over each window, with stone coping.

The left return wall has two massive chimney stacks, each with two diagonal chimneys, and a 20th-century porch situated between them. The right-hand return wall features a full-height gabled projection, which was formerly a chimney stack, and includes a small waggon doorway at the ground floor, two 2-light windows above, and an oculus on the left side. The rear of the building has four unequal gables, with some walls rebuilt and replacement transomed windows.

Inside, the hall has been almost completely remodelled, but the west end retains two massive inglenook fireplaces with chamfered bressummers. The jambs and bressummer of the former hall fireplace can be found in the former rear wall. The back door is positioned opposite the front door and is of a similar design.