Court Farmhouse

SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side) 9/120 Court Farmhouse 30.7.59 GV II* House, formerly two houses. Two early C17 houses, the eastern one with C14 remains, were linked in the early C20 by A N Prentice to form one house. Limestone rubble with remains of timber-frame with stone slate roofs. Two storeys with attic. Windows are mullioned, mostly rebated and chamfered. The eastern house is of two gabled bays, the left-hand one wider and with windows of six lights on the ground floor, five lights on the first floor and two lights to the attic. The right-hand bay is of two storeys and has 3-light windows. Chimney towards rear behind left-hand gable. The western house has a gabled cross-wing at the left. It has a window of five lights on the ground floor, four on the first floor and three to the attic. Set back at the right are two bays, the left-hand one with its first floor window within a gable. The right-hand bay is lower and is also gabled. A door, at the left, has a chamfered surround with canted head. Chimneys to right of door, on ridge of cross wing and at left. The link by Prentice has low eaves, a central one-bay two-storey gabled projection, and a two-storey bay window in the angle with the lower (western) house. To the left of the gabled pro- jection is a 3-light mullioned window and a doorway with canted head. Chimney, with clustered square shafts, on ridge of gable. The western wall of the west house is of stone on the ground floor and is timber-framed in two rows of square panels on the first floor. Interior: not accessible at time of survey (January 1987). Eastern house said to incorporate part of late C14 hall, with one braced collar cruck truss remaining. Said to have re-used moulded beams of a similar period. (VCH, p 34).

Listing NGR: SP1059737523