Little Malvern Court

Little Malvern Court is a house incorporating remains of the Priory Church of St Giles, dating primarily to the early 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in the late 15th and 16th centuries, further modifications in the 17th and 18th centuries, and additions of 1860 by Charles Hansom. It was restored in the early 1960s and is constructed of stone, brick, and timber framing with tile roofs.

The house is built around a small courtyard, comprising an east range that incorporates an early 14th-century hall, originally on the west side of the Priory cloister; a mid-16th century north range of timber framing on a stone base, altered late 18th century and on the site of the church's south aisle; and a three-storey stone tower of around 1600 with a stair turret on the south side. A west range includes two bays of a timber-framed building, possibly late 15th century.

The east wall of the east (hall) range has a window at hall level to each side of a protecting stone stack; the right-hand window is a 18th-century sash with glazing bars. To the right of the stack are external stone steps leading to a doorway at the high end of the hall, with a doorway below providing access to an undercroft. A three-story 17th-century turret stands to the left, in line with the screens. This has a stone and brick ground floor, with timber framing above. The upper part of the south end of this range is timber-framed, including the south gable wall. To the left of the turret is the stone tower, featuring a two-story 19th-century square bay window with a mullioned and transomed window above it on the second floor. To its left is the south end of Hansom's west range with a two-story canted bay window and a hipped roof, the gables of which were removed in the 1960s.

The north wall of the north range has stone mullioned windows on the ground floor and sash windows with glazing bars above. A gable with exposed framing, partly covered by a chimney, is positioned to the right. The west gable wall of this range also displays some exposed framing.

The interior includes a smoke-blackened early 14th-century hall roof of four bays, with screens re-exposed during the 1960 restoration. The wind-braces are cusped, with trusses featuring knee-braces to the lower collar and trefoil cusping to the upper collar, forming a trefoil at the apex. The spire truss has curved braces between aisle posts and collar, with tracery infill to the spandrels. A double wall-plate to the west wall suggests a replacement of a stone wall with the present timber-framed wall.