Hound House

Hound House is a house that dates from the mid 16th century at the rear, with extensions added to the left in the 17th century, further extensions across the front in 1815, and additional modifications to the ends in the mid 19th century, along with 20th-century extensions to the rear.

The front range features colourwashed stucco and has a low pitched, hipped slate roof. It is two storeys high over a basement, with deep corbelled eaves and chimney stacks at the rear left and right. The facade is regular, with three sash windows on the first floor and two sixteen-pane glazing bar sashes on the ground floor. In the centre, there are double panel doors in a recessed porch, which includes an oval fanlight, flanking lights, and a moulded wood frame. A half-oval portico with fluted Doric columns and pilasters on angled responds supports a full entablature. To the right, there is one bay set back, made of sandstone block with brick dressings on the left-hand return front.

To the rear left, there is a 20th-century wing that extends at a 45-degree angle to the front range and is set slightly to the right. This part of the house is older, timber framed and clad in sandstone and chalk block, with painted brick dressings. Some posts of the frame are visible. It has a plain tiled roof, hipped to the left and hipped with a gable to the right. There is a triple corbelled stack to the right and a smaller front ridge stack to the right of centre. The windows are arranged irregularly, mostly leaded, with four on the first floor and larger casements on the left side that break into the eaves. The ground floor features two cambered head windows and a pair of casement doors to the left, along with a panelled door in the centre under a hipped roof open porch. The wing is canted at a 45-degree angle to the right end.