Old Court is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Old Court
- WRENN ID
- plain-pediment-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Court, Brobury with Monnington on Wye
- OS grid reference
- SO 345 443
- Coordinates
- 52.09334, -2.95618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Court is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the late 18th century to early 19th century, with earlier elements from the 17th century and later alterations. The structure is timber-framed but largely rebuilt in brick, with some sandstone rubble. It features Welsh and sandstone slate roofs and brick stacks. The building is L-shaped, consisting of a four-bay house aligned north to south, with a seven-bay granary extending west from the north end. It has a cellar, two storeys, and an attic.
The west elevation displays three windows: a 3-light, a 2-light, and another 3-light late 20th-century casement, all with cambered heads. There is a dentilled brick eaves cornice and two late 20th-century skylights. The granary, which projects forward from the left side, has a six-panelled door that may date from the 18th century, located on the right-hand return. The east elevation features a large brick side stack. The north elevation of the granary has three rows of square timber-framed panels on the first floor above a sandstone rubble ground floor.
Inside, the building has deeply chamfered ceiling beams, likely from the 17th century, which create panels at the junction of the house and granary range. The kitchen and the principal ground floor room have segmental 18th-century brick arches over stone jambs of the fireplaces. The kitchen also features 17th-century lamb's tongue chamfer stops on the ceiling beams and oak floorboards. Some trusses in the house have raking struts, while others have pegged king-posts over ties supported on curved principals. The granary includes king-post trusses with two pairs of raking struts.
Local climate
Old Court receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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