Hoe Court

Hoe Court is a house dating from the mid-18th century, which was remodelled and extended in the mid-19th century in an Italianate style. The house is faced with stucco and has slate roofs, with four decorative gabled stacks along the ridges. It is three storeys high and has a 1:4 window arrangement. The left side of the building forms a taller, gabled cross-wing, prominently featuring a delicate loggia supported by cast-iron columns. The ground floor has French casements, while the first and second floors have six-pane casements. Pronounced string courses visually separate each of the three floors. Deep decorative brackets are present at the eaves. There are three tympana, set on small scrolled brackets, above each of the three main first-floor windows of the cross-wing. Quoins to the corners of both parts of the house offer visual separation. A single-storey stone porch provides access from the right return. The interior includes a spinal corridor leading to an austere, open-well softwood staircase from the mid-19th century, featuring turned balusters and a third flight serving the higher rooms of the cross-wing. Semi-circular headed architraves are found in the ground-floor rooms. The poet Laurence Binyon, author of "To the Fallen," lived here in his youth. The stacks are constructed from concrete blocks, a common feature in Colwall buildings created by the Ballard family from the 1860s onwards.