Goxhill Hall

House. Built between 1690 and 1705 for Henry Hildyard, with later additions of an outshut and minor alterations, and renovated around 1976. The house is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with blue brick and limestone ashlar dressings. It has a pantile roof. Originally a 2-room central entrance hall plan, it incorporates an outshut to the rear left which adjoins a medieval hall. The building is two storeys high with an attic, and is five bays wide, exhibiting symmetry. It features a moulded ashlar plinth, quoins to the angles, and a slightly projecting central bay. A flight of three moulded stone steps leads to a recessed door consisting of six fielded panels and a four-pane overlight, set within an ashlar surround with a keyed eared architrave flanked by panelled pilasters and consoles. These support a large segmental pediment. There are twelve-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with wooden sills and rubbed brick flat arches; a recessed sash above the entrance also has a keyed eared ashlar architrave with a moulded ashlar cill. The window surrounds and a three-course frieze at the first floor and mid-first floor are highlighted with blue brick headers. Later stepped brick eaves are present. Three 20th-century dormers are visible, with triangular pediments to the outer pair and a segmental pediment to the centre. Replacement 19th and 20th-century end stacks are present. Two lateral stacks are located at the rear with set-offs, projecting ribs to the upper sections, and moulded ashlar cornices. The right return has two twelve-pane sashes to each floor within flush wooden architraves. The rear elevation displays a four-fielded panel door in a beaded wooden frame, with two brick panels above; two wooden cross-mullion stair windows with leaded lights (one a 20th-century replacement) and four twelve-pane sashes. Internally, the entrance hall has a panelled square column supporting a moulded keyed arch with a panelled soffit. A fine open-well staircase is present, featuring a pulvino corniced string, twist-on-vase balusters, a ramped corniced handrail, panelled newels, panelled risers, a fielded-panel dado with a ramped corniced rail. Bolection panelling is found in the ground floor rooms and on the first floor to the right, which also includes raised panelling around the windows and panelled pilasters flanking the chimney. The first floor to the left has fielded panelling. All four rooms feature bolection chimney pieces and panelled overmantels, along with moulded skirting, dado rails, and cornices. Fielded-panel window reveals and doors in architraves are found throughout. The roof structure includes collared principals and through-purlins. It is a well-preserved building with fine details.