Courtfield And Adjoining Quadrant Wall With Coachway Entrance

Courtfield and the adjoining quadrant wall with a coachway entrance is an early 19th-century rebuilding of an earlier house, which has been altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone with slate, hipped roofs and has an irregular plan. The house is broadly rectangular, two rooms deep, featuring a central entrance and stairwell, with an eastern rear wing extending to the north that incorporates fabric from the earlier house. A chapel adjoins the north end, and the quadrant wall is attached to the west return of the house.

This Regency stucco mansion stands two storeys high, with cellars and attics. It features a string course, frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course, with a window arrangement of 2:3:2. The 20th-century windows are two-light casements, while the central three windows are set in a forward break with a pediment. Ionic pilasters pierce the string course on an implied plinth at the first floor, and there is a central forward projecting glazed semi-circular porch supported by Doric columns. The porch has a bucrania frieze and cornice, with iron railings above forming a balcony. The ground floor of the outer bays has a partly-glazed door and semi-circular headed blank arches with an impost band, while glazing bar sash windows are retained at the rear.

Inside, the entrance hall features a fine stuccoed ceiling ornament and a geometrical staircase, with isolated 17th-century splat balusters remaining in the balustrading of the staircase in the rear wing. Courtfield was formerly the seat of the Vaughan family and is now the retreat of the Mill Hill Brothers. Notably, Henry V was nursed here, possibly by Lady Margaret Montague. The house was remodelled around 1805 by William Miles of Ebley near Stroud in Gloucestershire.