Cotheridge Court

Cotheridge Court is a country house dating to the late 16th century, with alterations in 1770 and later additions. The construction combines timber framing, rendered brick, wattle-and-daub infill (largely refaced in brick), and brick extensions. It features tiled roofs and a sandstone ashlar chimney with brick stacks to the rear and north side elevation. The house is composed of a central range, an L-shaped north wing, and a long, narrow south cross-wing.

The symmetrical facade, dating to the late 18th century, is arranged with a 1:5:1 bay configuration; it is three stories high, though the central second-story windows are decorative. A moulded cornice runs beneath a parapet and balustrade. All windows have stone sills. The central five bays contain glazing bar sashes with gauged flat heads. The second-floor windows are six-pane sashes, and the first and fifth ground-floor windows have been replaced by multi-paned doors with rectangular three-pane fanlights. Projecting outer bays feature Venetian windows on the ground floor, with a prominent keyblock to the central window and four-pane sash; the first-floor windows are tripartite with a raised centre light topped by a mid-19th century panelled pediment. The side lights to these windows have stone lintels and plain sashes. Second-floor windows are six-pane sashes with triangular lintels on end modillions and accentuated keyblocks. The central doorway has a pediment on console brackets, displaying a shield bearing the arms of the Berkeley family. A multi-paned window now occupies the position of the former door, with a moulded architrave.

The older fabric of the building is visible in the rear and north side elevations, revealing close-set vertical studding, two rows from sill to wall plate, with long straight braces in the lower corners. Gable ends have carved bargeboards and pendants; the north gable end has swept upper corner braces and an exposed queen strut truss revealing a double purlin roof structure.

The interior retains a much-altered late 16th-century staircase to the rear of the central range, rising in three flights to the first floor around an open well, featuring massive square newels with moulded finials and square, raking balusters joined by small semi-circular raking arches. The drawing room in the south wing has an Adam-style stuccoed ceiling, along with carved doorcases, a cornice, dado rail, and chimney piece. The hallway in the south wing also retains a late 18th-century staircase with turned balusters. A late 19th-century brick two-story wing adjoins the house to the north, obscuring one arm of the original 16th-century L-shaped wing. In the mid-20th century, the building was divided into two dwellings and three flats.