Court Lodge And Garden Wall

Court Lodge is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with additions and cladding from the 17th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad and extended with red brick, partly in an irregular English bond. The roof is plain tiled. The main block is one storey with an attic, flanked by two-storey projecting wings, the right wing having a basement. The building has a plinth, a jetty on the right-hand block, and a plat band on the left-hand block. The gabled wings have 19th-century pierced barge boards with pendants. The central block includes a bay window or half-dormer, adorned with a fine 17th-century moulded bargeboard on an egg and tongue cornice. There is a large moulded stack cluster to the centre left, an offset stack projecting from the left end, and a third stack at the centre rear. On the left side, there are two mullioned and transomed wooden casements on each floor, with blocked ground floor openings on the right side. The right wing also has two basement openings. A plank and stud door is located to the centre right within a reeded and moulded doorway, which may be from the 19th century but is styled to resemble the 16th century. The rear features outshots and tile-hung gabled wings, matching the style of the 19th-century gables at the front. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped ceiling joists and inglenooks, one of which has a fireback dated 1656. Attached to the left side of the building is a 19th-century ragstone garden wall that extends about 50 yards, returning along the roadside and again to the west. This wall is approximately 10 feet high, ramping down to the roadside, and includes brick gateway piers and an overthrow with a trellised door.