10, Precentors Court

No. 10 Precentors Court is a house dating from the early 18th century, incorporating earlier fabric from the 15th century. The front garden elevation was altered in the mid-19th century, raised around 1900, and a wing was added around 1900, with further alterations and subdivision occurring later.

The front of the house is constructed of orange-brown brick in a Flemish bond, set upon a chamfered stone plinth. It features painted chamfered stone quoins, a timber eaves cornice, and a doorcase. The garden front is of squared, coursed magnesian limestone, with a raised area in orange-red brick in an English garden-wall bond. The roofs are slate with brick and stone copings, and brick stacks. There are two box dormers with 2x2-pane Yorkshire sash windows to the front.

The front door consists of six raised and fielded panels, topped by a bordered overlight, situated in a doorcase with fluted pilasters, a frieze, dentilled and moulded cornice on elongated consoles. Windows are 12-pane sashes; the first-floor windows are taller and have flat arches of gauged brick. Ground-floor windows have renewed sills, while the first-floor windows have painted stone sills. A painted stone band runs above the first floor. The eaves cornice is dentilled and modillioned. The wing to the left features a garage door on the ground floor and unequal 4-pane sash windows on the upper floors, with a single window in the gabled roof.

The rear of the house is two storeys and has gabled attics. The central bay projects, with a glazed door composed of two round-headed lights. To the left is a two-storey canted bay with round-arched multi-light windows on both floors and a clerestory of bordered lights on the ground floor. To the right of the door is a later square bay with four 1-pane round-headed sash windows. Other small round-headed windows are present on the ground floor. Remaining first-floor and attic windows are unequal 4-pane sashes.

The interior, which was not inspected, is recorded to include a 15th-century carved fireplace arch on the ground floor and a room with 16th-century moulded beams, three walls lined with early 17th-century wainscot, and an 18th-century fireplace with an overmantel panel. Re-used fittings have been reset elsewhere.