The Goddards

The Goddards is a house built in 1853 for the Shearburn family, with a rear addition added around 1910. It is constructed of red brick with tuck pointing and has a Welsh slate roof. The building features a double-depth plan, with a central entrance hall on the south front and a two-room east garden front that includes a canted bay. To the rear left is a kitchen wing, and to the rear right is an early 20th-century billiard room addition.

The house is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. It has a stucco plinth and a flight of steps leading to a large half-glazed door, which has six panes over three panels and is set in a recessed flat-faced stucco reveal. This door is flanked by French windows with margin bars, and both are beneath corniced blind boxes and rubbed-brick flat arches. There is a stucco band at the first floor, where 12-pane sash windows with sills and blind boxes sit beneath flat arches. The deep eaves are supported by carved ashlar brackets, and the hipped roof features a pair of axial stacks with bands and dentilled cornices.

The east garden front has two bays with a single-bay addition to the right. It includes a projecting ground-floor canted bay window with full-length French windows that have margin bars, along with a similar window to the left. The eaves on this front are also bracketed, similar to the main front.

Inside, the house boasts an open well staircase with a ramped handrail and ornate cast-iron balusters, as well as moulded plaster cornices and ceilings, particularly ornate in the ground-floor right room. There are marble chimney-pieces and panelled doors within architraves. The Goddards is part of a series of mid-19th century suburban villas built in Snaith for the Shearburn family.