Osgoodby Hall

Osgodby Hall is a house dating back to the 16th century, which was significantly altered in the mid-to-late 17th century, with further changes in the 18th century and around 1800, and a restoration in the late 1970s. The house is constructed of coursed squared gritstone, with a pantile roof and stone slates at the eaves. The main block is two storeys and five bays wide, with a parallel rear range and wings on either side; the right wing has a single-storey range projecting at right angles. The front features a central 17th-century door with interlocking moulded panels and curvilinear motifs, set within a rusticated stone porch. The porch has a round-arched doorway flanked by corniced pilasters rising to a cornice with a blocking course and acorn finials, and the interior return walls feature rusticated semi-domed niches with a moulded impost band. Restored 18-pane sashes are positioned under keyed lintels on the ground floor, while unequally-hung 15-pane sashes are above. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping are present. A broad, external stone stack is located at the left end, with stone quoins and strings, stepped at the top, and another brick stack is near the right end of the ridge. The rear of the house incorporates elements of a 16th-century house in the right wing, with the rest dating to the 18th century. A 20th-century porch creates an angle between the rear range and the projecting left wing. The left wing has Welsh slates to one roof pitch and a cruciform-plan ridge stack. A single-storey gabled wing projects from the right return, featuring a 12-pane side-sliding sash window, moulded kneelers, chamfered coping, and eaves bands to the returns. Inside, the front left room contains a large stone fireplace with a chamfered, segmental arch and a raised keystone within an elaborate wooden surround. This surround incorporates flanking half-columns, bays of panelling with round-arched, notched panels, and shorter panels creating a dado. The first-floor rooms also feature panelling and fireplaces from around 1800, with an earlier square-headed, chamfered fireplace in the front left room. A major feature is a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and square-section panelled newels with ball finials and raised lozenges, while back stairs have moulded splat balusters.