King Johns Palace

King John’s Palace is a circa 1600 range of buildings with later alterations and a modern section, situated on a courtyard plan. A parallel barn faces the road. The building features a central elliptical archway extending to the eaves. It is two storeys and attics high, with a timber-framed appearance on a stone plinth. The front elevation has four two-storey bays, featuring many-paned modern wooden casement windows. A moulded wooden bressumer is jettied to the right of the archway. The front is plastered, displaying remnants of wide rustication. The archway is moulded with a key block, beneath a rough wooden entablature supporting a tiled roof. Three gabled dormers and three chimneys (the right-hand one having a T-plan) are visible. Two doors are located to the left of the archway, while numbers 2 enters under the arch and number 1 is accessed from a modern extension to the rear. To the left is a tall red-brick wall containing an elliptical central arch with a stone archivolt and a wrought-iron gate with a crested capping. Within the courtyard to the south-east is a timber-framed wing with three gables, along with a lower one-and-a-half storey wing featuring one dormer and five windows, most of which are modern diamond lattice casements. There are three doorways, including those for numbers 5 and 6.