Goxhill Hall

TA 12 SW GOXHILL SOUTH END (south side)

5/35 Goxhill Hall (formerly listed as 6.11.67 Priory Farmhouse)

GV II*

House. 1690-1705 for Henry Hildyard. Later outshut and minor alterations. Renovated c1976. Red brick in Flemish bond with blue brick and limestone ashlar dressings. Pantile roof. 2-room central entrance hall plan with outshut to rear left adjoining medieval hall (q.v.). 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; symmetrical. Moulded ashlar plinth. Quoins to angles and slightly projecting central bay. Flight of 3 moulded stone steps to recessed 6- fielded-panel door and 4-pane overlight in ashlar surround with keyed eared architrave flanked by panelled pilasters and consoles supporting large segmental pediment. 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with wooden cills and rubbed brick flat arches; recessed sash above entrance in keyed eared ashlar architrave with moulded ashlar cill. Window surrounds and 3- course friezes at first floor, mid first floor window and window arch level are picked out in blue brick headers. Later stepped brick eaves. Three C20 replacement dormers: triangular pediments to outer pair, segmental to centre. C19-C20 replacement end stacks. Two lateral stacks to rear with set-offs, projecting ribs to upper sections and moulded ashlar conices. Right return has two 12-pane sashes to each floor in flush wooden architraves. Rear: 4-fielded panel door in beaded wooden frame with 2 brick panels above; 2 wooden cross-mullion stair windows with leaded lights, (one a C20 replacement) and four 12-pane sashes. Interior. Entrance hall has panelled square column supporting moulded keyed arch with panelled soffit, fine open well staircase with pulvino corniced string, twist-on-vase balusters, ramped corniced handrail, panelled newels, panelled risers, fielded-panel dado with ramped corniced rail. Bolection panelling to ground floor roooms and first floor right: ground floor right has raised panelling around windows and panelled pilasters flanking chimney, first floor right has pulvinated friezes above windows. Fielded panelling to first floor left room. All four rooms have bolection chimney pieces and panelled overmantels, moulded skirting, dado rails and cornices. Fielded-panel window reveals and doors in architraves throughout. 5-bay roof with collared principals and through-purlins. A well-preserved house with fine details. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 251.

Listing NGR: TA1093520511