Calcot Court

Calcot Court is a house and stable yard, now converted into flats, dating from 1755 with a 19th-century second floor added to the house and extensive 20th-century alterations to the stable yard.

The main house presents a south front of red brick with stone dressings, a plinth, and a frieze with dentil cornice between the first and second floors. The roof is hipped with old tiles and two off-centre stacks to left and right. The house is three storeys and seven bays, with glazing bar sashes throughout. Ionic brick pilasters with stone bases and capitals support a triangular pediment over the centre three bays, which contains a Venetian window with flanking fan ornament in the tympanum. Dentil bricks appear above the second-floor windows. The three central first-floor windows have architraves. The third and fifth ground-floor windows feature balustrading beneath, arched heads, architraves, and imposts. Two flights of stone steps with wrought iron spearhead railings lead to the central French casements, which have an arched head, architrave, and imposts. The side elevations are five bays, with three-bay blank arched linking walls set back to left and right in red brick with stone dressings. Set-back flanking pavilions are built in red brick with a moulded wooden eaves cornice and hipped old tile roof. These have a triangular pediment and central stack, square plan with recessed corners, two storeys, three bays, and glazing bar sashes.

The north front features a mezzanine between the first and second floors. Ten steps with a wrought iron balustrade lead to two central half-glazed doors with a radial fanlight. The doorcase comprises an architrave, triple keystone, and two unfluted Doric columns supporting a triglyph frieze with guttae and cornice.

The stable yard consists of east and west ranges in red brick with plinth and moulded wooden eaves cornice. These have hipped old tile roofs with two ridge stacks off-centre to left and right, and two dormers each side of a central triangular pediment above a large blocked archway with impost bands. These ranges are one storey and attic, eight bays, with glazing bar sashes. Six-panelled doors occupy the third and sixth bays, featuring circular overlights, reeded architraves, and flat hoods. Three-bay blank arched linking walls to left and right are in red brick with stone dressings.

The north range is built in red brick with plinth and moulded wooden eaves cornice to the hipped old tile roof. It has two ridge stacks off-centre to the left and two to the right. A central segmental arched wooden cupola with an ogee lead cap and weathervane sits above three dormers on each side of a central slightly projecting triangular pediment, which crowns a large round arched carriage entrance with impost bands. This range is one and a half storeys, fifteen bays, with glazing bar sashes. Six-panelled doors appear in the fourth and twelfth bays with circular overlights, reeded architraves, and flat hoods. Linking walls to left and right each have a blank segmental arch. The north-east and north-west corner blocks are built in red brick with moulded wooden eaves cornice to the hipped old tile roof and are two storeys and attic.

The interior includes principal ground-floor rooms with modest plaster ceilings and a double-height staircase hall with stucco wall panels. The staircase is a three-flight square-well design with a 20th-century wrought iron balustrade. A first-floor doorcase features a shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, and a broken triangular pediment.

The house was originally built for Sir John Blagrave and was formerly known as Calcot House.