Court Lodge

Court Lodge is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with extensions from the 16th century and alterations made in 1847. It features a timber frame with some exposed close-studding and plaster infill, as well as areas that are rendered. The roofs are plain tiled and the building has an L-shaped plan. The entrance front is two storeys high and sits on a ragstone plinth that has been repaired with brick. It has a continuous jetty supported by brackets that return on massive, moulded dragon beams. The hipped roof has gablets, with the right side untiled, and the gable end of the rear wing oversails to the centre left.

There is a massive 16th-century diapered brick stack that projects from the centre left, featuring two lozenge-set, truncated chimneys. The left side of the first floor has blocked original mullioned windows, while the right side has casements fitted between the studs, with leaded casements on the ground floor. A central 20th-century half-glazed door is topped with a flat hood. To the right, there is a single-storey outshot. The left return wing, which is rendered, is also two storeys high and sits on a plinth with a plat band, featuring a stack at the end left. On the first floor, there are two leaded metal casements, and on the ground floor, there is a five-light leaded casement with ragstone above inscribed with "EK 1847." To the left, there is a door with six panels, also topped with a flat hood on brackets.

Inside, the building has a jettied range with a crown post roof. A former exterior close-studded wall is now located within the return range, featuring a section of brattished bresummer. The 16th-century wing boasts a fine double wave-moulded cross-beamed ceiling with deeply cut fern-leaf chamfer stops. There is an extremely large inglenook fireplace with a massive moulded chimney bressummer, and the fireplace was added by Edward Kingsnorth, complete with large iron cauldron hooks and a ratchet. Local history suggests that the house has origins linked to Sir William Orlestone from the 1320s.