Court Farmhouse And Attached Railings

HADZOR CP HADZOR LANE (east side) SO 96 SW 3/44 Court Farmhouse and attached railings GV II

Farmhouse, now religious centre. Early C18 with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Brick, partly handmade, ashlar dressings, plain tiled roof has parapets at gable ends with moulded string and bases and left end ridge stack. Two storeys and attic with dormers; three course band between main storeys. Three bays; C19 pilaster buttresses with offsets at each end of west front elevation and right side corner return; windows have C19 hood moulds with returns and are all cross-casements, C19 on ground floor and C20 on first floor; three flat-roofed C20 dormers with 2-light casements; C19 central gabled brick porch, parapet at gable end above moulded string, Tudor archway, coat of arms in apex, lancets in side walls and, within, a C19 panelled door, and transom light with two glazing bars beneath a cambered head. Attic lights in gable ends. Interior not accessible at time of survey. C19 additions at rear. Cast iron, spearheaded railings run parallel to front elevation on 2 feet high blue brick plinth with chamfered sandstone coping. Railings are attached to house at outer ends by short brick walls, and adjoin porch at other end; central gate to each row of railings with cusped detailing and pierced quatrefoil frieze above middle rail. A substantial early C18 farmhouse which, in spite of later alterations, has retained much of its former character. It forms a group with the nearby dovecote and attached cow house (qv).

Listing NGR: SO9153062192