Goose Hill, Mounting Block And Walls Enclosing Front Garden With Moongate

Goose Hill is a farmhouse with garden walls and a moongate, dating from the late medieval period, with a ceiling added in the 17th century and later alterations. The building was refenestrated around 1900, and a rear outshut was added in the late 20th century. It is constructed of random rubble chert stone, with a roughcast facade and a thatched roof featuring a half-hipped left gable end. There is a clay-tiled extension at the rear and brick stacks on the right gable end and to the left of the cross passage.

The farmhouse has an open hall layout, believed to have originally been a three-cell structure with a cross passage, although the inner room has since been demolished. It has one and a half storeys and four bays, with three and four-light many-paned casements, two eyebrow dormers, and two later window insertions below the eaves. The central gabled porch, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century, features ashlar quoins and an elliptical-headed opening, with a lancet window on the returns and a 20th-century plank door with bulls-eye glass.

On the right return, there are two bays; to the left of the stack is a full-height projection, and to the right is a two-light steeply chamfered mullioned window in the gable end, with evidence of a blocked opening below. Additionally, there is a four-step mounting block. The interior, which has not been seen, is said to contain two smoke-blackened arch-braced jointed crucks. The hall fireplace features a plinth on the rear wall in the cross passage, with a chamfered lintel and stops, and a chamfered wooden door frame that was resited when the stairs were altered in the hall. Chamfered beams with scroll stops are present in both rooms. The projection by the kitchen stack is believed to have been a curing chamber or stair turret.

The walls enclosing the front garden, which include the moongate, are possibly from around 1900 and are made of random rubble chert with hit and miss coping, returning from the gable ends. The moongate is located on the west side, with a small summerhouse in the northwest corner. Goose Hill is also known as Gore Hill.