Brinsop Court

Brinsop Court is a house dating back to the 14th century, with significant alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries, and an extension built in 1913. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, timber frame with plaster and rough-cast infill, and has brick stacks and tiled roofs with some sandstone slates. The house is quadrangular, with its main front facing north and a contemporary range on its east side. It is two storeys high with attics.

The north elevation is largely sandstone ashlar, except for a 18th-century brick gable above the entrance. It features seven windows. The first floor has a 3-light mullioned window to the left of the gable, flanked by two pairs of trefoil-headed lights. To the right of the gable are a pair of lancets, a chamfered round-headed window, and another pair of trefoil-headed lights. The gable itself has four early 20th-century six-pane casements under a segmental head. The ground floor has a pair of trefoiled lights and a square-headed light to the left of the entry. To the right of the entry is a 2-light window with trefoil-heads to each light and a sunken blind quatrefoil in the tracery. Further to the right is a round-headed window with an early 20th-century casement and a pair of lancets. The doorway has a brick segmental head and a pair of two-leaved ledged early 20th-century oak doors with enriched strap hinges.

Early 20th-century additions to the left of the house extend to a contemporary east range, which has six windows: 2- and 4-light early 20th-century casements on both floors, and a ledged door on the left side. The west elevation has restored timber framing finished in roughcast to the right, and a stone gable to the left. A massive external stack with four diagonal brick shafts is also present.

The interior includes a fine great hall in the south range, featuring a 14th-century three-bay roof with cambered tie-beams supporting foiled king-posts and principals, all richly moulded. The fireplace has moulded jambs, and there are window seats beneath moulded trefoil-headed inner arches. A room in the west range has a ceiling divided into six panels by deeply chamfered beams and a moulded fireplace.