Kemerton Court

Kemerton Court is a house dating back to the 17th century, which was significantly altered around 1720 and further modified in the 1830s. The house is constructed from coursed dressed limestone rubble, with a limestone ashlar facade and hipped slate roofs concealed behind parapets. Large rendered brick ridge stacks are present. The building has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic with dormers. It features a chamfered plinth, a decorative band between the main storeys, and a moulded eaves cornice to the front.

The facade is arranged as a symmetrical 2:2:1:2:2 bay composition, with the outer and central bays projecting forward and articulated by giant pilasters. These pilasters interrupt the first-floor band and the parapet. The parapet curves upwards where it meets the pilasters, with ball finials atop the outer pilasters and urn finials on the inner ones. The doorway in the central bay also projects and interrupts the first floor band; the moulded eaves cornice is shaped above it to form a segmental pediment with an upward-swept gable parapet, from which the original urn finial is now missing. Windows are primarily original 15-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, though those in bays 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the ground floor were replaced with 12-pane sashes around 1830. Dormer windows with 2-light casements are set behind the parapet. A round-headed first floor window in the central bay has a panelled architrave, ornately carved dropped keyblock, flanking panelled pilasters resting on two moulded corbels, and a moulded stone sill. A circular window with radiating glazing bars is set within the parapet above. The central entrance has a pediment over an entablature, flanked by fluted pilasters, a moulded architrave, and a half-glazed door. The main entrance was relocated to the rear of the building in the early 19th century when the road was re-routed, and is now accessed via an early 19th-century gabled ashlar porch with a 4-centred chamfered archway, a hoodmould, a moulded architrave within, and half-glazed double doors. Original 17th-century window openings with leaded cross-casements remain on the ground floor of the rear elevation, revealing the original core of the house.

The front central ground floor room boasts fine 18th-century panelling, a modillion cornice, a fireplace flanked by giant fluted pilasters, and original doors with eared architraves. Significant 18th-century fittings remain throughout, including an open-well staircase with turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a panelled dado with fluted pilasters. Some 17th-century panelling is also said to be present within a first-floor closet. It is believed that Thomas White of Worcester carried out some of the major 18th-century alterations.