Goss Hall

Goss Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as further modifications and additions made in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables, and ball finials. The building has ashlar ridge stacks, stone slates, and concrete tiles.

The house has a lobby-entrance plan with two parallel ranges, each containing a central stack. The east elevation is two storeys and attics high, with three bays. The northernmost bay is at a lower level and has only two storeys. The taller section features a centrally placed doorway with a quoined surround, flanked by two-light chamfered mullioned windows on the south side, and an advanced 20th-century two-storey canted bay window with tile hanging. The lower single bay has a blocked quoined doorway beneath a massive lintel, now with a small-paned cast-iron casement window. To the north of the doorway, there is a two-light chamfered mullioned window with 20th-century glazing bar casements, and above it, a shallow three-light chamfered mullioned window at first floor level.

The south elevation is built into rising ground and features twin gables, each with stacked two-light chamfered mullioned windows that have 20th-century casements with single horizontal glazing bars. There is a quoined doorway beneath a massive lintel at the junction of the two ranges at first floor level, accessed by a flight of stone steps. The western range includes a four-light chamfered mullioned window on the first floor of the north gable and a three-light window in the attic.

Inside, the interior has been much altered but includes a restored 18th-century jowelled hearth surround in the north gable of the lower two-storey bay, and a bressumer beam with an empty heck post mortice on the north side of the central doorway in the eastern range, with a similar arrangement on the south side of the central stack in the western range. The ceilings throughout are beamed. There is an 18th-century hearth with a modestly moulded surround in the north-west corner of the western range. An outbuilding features a relocated plaque that reads: 'IB 1627'.