Cleeton Court

Cleeton Court is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 15th century, with significant alterations and additions made in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble stone and coursed stone rubble, with a plain clay tile roof. It features a central brick ridge stack, projecting eaves, and verge stone stacks with brick upper shafts. The original layout was an L-shaped design, beginning with a 3-window range from the 15th century, and later incorporating a 4-window cross wing in the 16th and 17th centuries, with further extension wings.

The north-west front has an entrance door under a 20th-century projecting lean-to porch, above which is a 2-light casement window. A mullion and transom window with a flat stone lintel, keyblock, and vestigial hoodmould sits to the right. 20th-century casements fill the main range and gable end of the cross wing, framed by brick segmental arches. Other additions include a 20th-century dormer window. The north-east return displays a 2-storey, 2-window range of 2-light casements to the left and a 3-light window to the right, with stepped hoodmoulds over the ground floor. A glazed door and stone stack flank the left side. The south-east side presents projecting gables around a central gable. Restored stone mullion windows are present in the end gable of the 17th-century wing, with the cellar window retaining its original mullions. Other windows on this side are 20th-century replacements set under restored lintels. The south-west side features a projecting gable-end of the main range with a stone stack and a 2-light casement at first floor. An 18th-century wing adjoins this, featuring a projecting stone eaves stack and a 20th-century casement with a stone lintel and hoodmould on each storey.

The interior of the main front range boasts a single trenched-purlin roof with chamfered purlins. Two trusses in the south bay feature a cambered tie beam, 3 vertical struts, a collar with twin raking struts, and square framing to the cross wall. The central two bays were formerly a medieval open hall, with heavy single purlins, hollow chamfers, and run-out stops. A central open truss has arched braced base crucks, a cambered collar with a central vertical strut, and twin cusped raking-struts. The hall end truss includes a deeply chamfered cambered tie beam with a vertical strut, collar with twin raking struts, and square framing, with a cambered girding beam and a bowtell-moulded chamfer. Hall bays were later filled in with 17th-century bridging beams and floor joists. The 16th-century cross wing has a double trenched-purlin roof with two trusses, each including a single vertical strut, twin raking struts under the collar, and truncated principals. Cross-frames incorporate square framing, tension braces, girding beams, jowled posts, and arched door-heads. The 17th-century cross wing extension has two trusses—one with two vertical struts and a collar, the other with twin raking struts—along with deep chamfered bridging beams.