Hough House

HOUGH HOUSE, FRIESTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1062376
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Hough House
Statutory Address:
HOUGH HOUSE, FRIESTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1062376
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Hough House
Statutory Address 1:
HOUGH HOUSE, FRIESTON ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HOUGH HOUSE, FRIESTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Hough-on-the-Hill
National Grid Reference:
SK 92242 46395

Details

SK 94 NW HOUGH-ON-THE-HILL FRIESTON ROAD (north side)

3/106 Hough House

G.V. II

Small country house. 1624, C18, C19, C20. Limestone ashlar, coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, pantile roofs with central ridge stack on west range and 2 ridge stacks on south range. L-plan. 2 storey and garret. Late C17 ashlar south front of west range of 3 bays with plinth and central doorway with lugged moulded architrave scrolled and beaded raised keystone, 8 panelled door and small decorated plaque, and small blocked window above. Doorway flanked by single 3 light mullion windows with moulded cornices. 2, three light mullion windows above with moulded cornices. North side of west range rebuilt in C19 but early C17 2 light mullion window to cellar intact. Early C18 rubble south range with C19 south front with plinth and first and second floor stringcourses. Ground floor 4 light mullion window with transom. First floor 4 light mullion window with 3 light mullion window in gable. North-east wall of 1624 with contemporary blocked fireplace with shallow moulded head. Over west range, a late C17 butt purlin roof intact, with C19 clasped purlin roof over south range. North gable collapsed and rebuilt in C20, datestone inscribed 1624 discovered inside but now lost. Source: D. L. Roberts, Vernacular Building in Kesteven.

Listing NGR: SK9224246395

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Legacy System number:
193196
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Roberts, D L, Vernacular Buildings in Kesteven, ()

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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