Hough House

Hough House is a small country house dating from 1624, with significant alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, and has pantile roofs with a central ridge stack on the west range and two ridge stacks on the south range. The house is arranged in an L-shape.

The south front of the west range, built in the late 17th century, is of ashlar and has three bays. It features a plinth and a central doorway with a lugged moulded architrave, a scrolled and beaded raised keystone, an eight-panelled door, and a small blocked window above. The doorway is flanked by single three-light mullion windows with moulded cornices, and above them are two three-light mullion windows with similar cornices. The north side of the west range was rebuilt in the 19th century, but an early 17th-century two-light mullion window remains intact, leading to the cellar.

The early 18th-century rubble south range has a 19th-century south front with a plinth and first and second floor stringcourses. It has a four-light mullion window with a transom on the ground floor and a four-light mullion window on the first floor, with a three-light mullion window in the gable. A north-east wall from 1624 contains a contemporary blocked fireplace with a shallow moulded head. The roof over the west range retains a late 17th-century butt purlin structure, while the south range has a 19th-century clasped purlin roof. The north gable collapsed and was rebuilt in the 20th century, during which a datestone inscribed 1624 was discovered inside but has since been lost.