His own home (the Grade II* listed Bishopsbarns)[2] in St George's Place, York, was in the same street that Noel and Kathleen Terry lived in and 0.6 miles (1 km) from Goddards.

[4] The National Heritage List for England describes Goddards as “the finest surviving example of the work of Walter Brierley, the Lutyens of the north”,[5] and it still retains many of the original fixtures including its Arts and Crafts wallpapers and panelling and the staircase with its oak carving.

The exterior of the house features handmade locally produced bricks arranged in geometric patterns and decorative chimney stacks typical of a Brierley building.

[6] Goddards was built by William Anelay whose initial estimate for the project, including the carriage entrance, was £25,980 (equivalent to £1,900,000 in 2023),[7] however the work suffered a number of delays and was not finished until after the family had moved into the house.

[9] In 1925 George Dillistone, a landscape architect from Tunbridge Wells who worked with Lutyens at Castle Drogo, was hired to design the garden at Goddards.

[20][19] In 2016 the National Trust revealed plans to recreate the original planting schemes drawn up by Dillistone almost ninety years earlier.

[21] Brierley was also the architect for the Grade II* listed gatehouse at the entrance to Goddards, a red brick structure with staircase turrets[22] which incorporates a flat roofed motor house.

[26] Kathleen lived at Aldersyde, a large house that her father Henry Ernest Leetham commissioned in 1895 and which is located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of Goddards.

[16] Soon after the marriage Noel was sent to France due to the First World War and in 1916 was wounded at the Battle of the Somme whilst serving with the 5th West Yorkshire Regiment.

[16] Although the house was built in the Arts and Crafts style it would become furnished with a large assortment of Georgian furniture and clocks which Noel Terry collected throughout his life.