Court Farmhouse

Court Farmhouse is a 16th and 17th century farmhouse, later used as a store and chickenhouse. It incorporates earlier elements and has undergone subsequent alterations. The building is constructed of brick and timber-frame, partly weatherboarded with brick and woven infill. It has a sandstone rubble stack with squared sandstone diagonal shafts and a pantile roof. The farmhouse follows a T-plan, with a main range aligned roughly east/west and a cross-wing at the west end. It is one and two storeys high. The north elevation of the main range features square framing, two panels high from cill to wall-plate. There is an entrance immediately to the left of the weatherboarded gable front, which includes a small central opening to the ground floor. A brick ridge stack is positioned in the middle of the main range. The south elevation exhibits exposed brick-nogged framing on the right side of the main range, with a brick section to the left containing a small first-floor opening and a segmentally-headed ground-floor opening. A segmentally-headed doorway is located to the right of the last. The gable front to the left is weatherboarded. Internally, fragments of a 17th century plastered ceiling with bird designs and moulded margins are found in the ground floor room of the cross-wing. The cross-wing also displays straight-cut chamfer stops to visible beams. The east end of the main range has run-out chamfer stops to the ceiling beams. On the first floor of the same range, a fireplace has chamfered stone jambs and a chamfered oak lintol. Two pairs of cruck blades and two segmentally-headed doorways are also nearby. According to Buildings of England, the claimed 17th century plastered ceiling is non-existent.