Goyt Hall

Goyt Hall is a house built around 1570 for Randle Davenport, with alterations and rebuilding around 1860 by R. Horsefield. The structure is timber-framed with a dressed stone rear, a Flemish bond brick wing, and roofs made of slate and stone slate. It has an H-shaped layout with two storeys throughout, featuring a two-storey porch and a symmetrically corresponding projecting bay, with a former cross-passage open to the house part. The house has a stone plinth, coved jetty, and eaves, with similar features on the projecting porch and left bays, which have jettied gables adorned with enriched bressumer beams that include the initials R and D. The porch features a four-centred arch doorway, while the left crosswing has a zig-zag enriched bressumer. The right crosswing, added around 1860, replaces a one-storey timber-framed wing. The windows are later casements or Victorian sashes. The rear of the house has scattered fenestration, stone quoins, and previously had an external stack. Although the interior has lost many of its main features, it still retains chamfered beams with stepped stops and diagonal struts. The 19th-century walls were added to divide the large spaces. Goyt Hall is a notable example of a large 16th-century vernacular house from Cheshire.