Lulsley Court

Lulsley Court is a farmhouse dating back to the 16th century, with later additions from the 17th century and alterations in the 19th century. The construction is timber-framed, incorporating brick and wattle-and-daub infill and some brick walling, with a sandstone rubble cellar and a tiled roof. The building consists of a hall with a hearth at the lower end and a two-bay service wing to the left, forming a cross-wing two bays deep. Parallel cross-wings extend from the upper end of the hall, each two bays in length, with the outer wing being a 17th-century addition. The house has two storeys and a cellar at the upper end. The external timber frame has been replaced with painted brick at ground floor level, featuring square panelling above, except for the main and side elevations of the upper cross-wings, which retain close-set vertical studding throughout. The later cross-wing is slightly jettied, displaying a carved bressummer with billet decoration and console brackets on its main and side elevations. Windows are predominantly 19th century, consisting mainly of three-light wood mullioned windows in moulded surrounds at the upper end and metal casements at the service end, all with carved canopies on brackets. All gables feature 19th-century carved bargeboards with finials and pendants. The main elevation's gabled service bay has a ground and first-floor window and a planked door. An adjoining bay has plain ground and first-floor casements. The hall has a ground-floor window and a 19th-century dormer with a window below eaves level, along with a 19th-century door and tiled porch positioned at an angle with the cross-wing. Both cross-wing gable ends have ground and first-floor windows. A central 19th-century timber-framed tiled porch has a partly glazed door. Brick chimney stacks are present at the service end side elevation, with two diagonal shafts, at the lower end of the hall with three diagonal shafts, and rising from the roof ridge bridging the cross-wing valley with four clustered shafts; all chimneys have oversailing courses to their caps. A 17th or 18th century oriel window, supported by a solid moulded bracket, is located on the ground floor rear bay of the right elevation. The interior has been extensively refitted in the 19th century. A natural spring rises in the cellar.