Golsoncott House

Golsoncott House is a house dated 1912. It is built with roughcast over rubble, with a squared and coursed red sandstone entrance tower. The tower has a half-timbered gabled top, herringbone brick nogging, a hipped bell-cast roof with overhanging eaves, and large rendered stacks set on the roof ridge - two to the right, and one to the left of the entrance. The plan is a splayed L-shape, featuring a small octagonal entrance hall with services to the left and a corridor to the right, linking the two slightly projecting wings of the garden front. There are stairs and a dining room fronted by a four-bay loggia.

The house is in the Arts and Crafts style. It has one and a half storeys, with many paned two- and three-light casement windows. There are two hipped dormers with gablets to the left and one to the right. The end bay to the left has a half-timbered gabled top over the loggia, carried on shaped brackets. The ground floor to the left has four irregular sized window openings, while a long corridor window is to the right. An entrance pentice porch is carried on shaped brackets, featuring a four-centred arch doorway inscribed "1912", with a moulded plank door and wrought iron knocker by Horrobin.

The garden front has a 1:2:1 bay arrangement, rendered asymmetrical by the addition of an extra storey to the gabled tile-hung wing to the right, and a sleeping porch to the left of the left gabled wing. Circular stone columns form part of the four-bay loggia, above which are two hipped dormers. The loggia on the left return is now glazed.

The interior includes contemporary fittings, notably a completely panelled and white painted garden room. The house was built by Count Hochburg for his land agent on the Croydon Hall estate. It is a very picturesque composition in the Arts and Crafts style, a style of which there are few good examples in the county.