Hunton Court

Hunton Court is a house with a core dating back to the 13th century, significantly altered and extended in the 14th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The front facade was rebuilt around 1848. It is constructed of evenly-coursed stone with a slate roof, and sits on a low stone plinth. The main hall consists of three bays and retains a 14th-century roof. A cross-wing projects forward to the left, with an 18th-century roof. The original bay to the right end of the hall no longer exists. A re-entrant angle was built out, likely in the mid-19th century, creating a double-depth plan.

The house has two storeys and an attic. The front features a central break, a two-storey canted stone bay to the left, and a moulded stone cornice, including to the bay and part of the right return elevation. A balustraded parapet runs around the entire building, although it's lower at the rear and left return. A moulded triangular stone pediment sits above the central break. The roof is hipped to the right, with a returning hip, and steeply pitched to the left cross-wing, hipped to both front and rear. Five stone stacks, each with moulded cornices, are visible; one to the left gable end, one to the rear towards the left, one to the centre, one to the rear towards the right, and one towards the right end. Dormers, concealed behind the balustrade, have 12-pane sashes. The windows are irregularly spaced; twelve recessed 12-pane sashes are set below the eaves, with wedge lintels and small stone corbels to the sills; three have blind boxes within the left canted bay, three to the central break, and two are broadly spaced to the right of the break. Tall six-pane sashes with thin glazing bars are on the ground floor. A two-storey canted stone bay is present on the front of the right return elevation, featuring three sashes with blind boxes.

A single-storey, later 19th-century stone porch with rusticated ashlar pilasters and a coved, moulded cornice to the parapet, extends across the front of the central break. A broken-based segmental pediment sits above the central panelled door. A Gothic doorway is located on the rear elevation. A two-storey addition of chequered red and grey brick, with a slate roof and dentilled eaves cornice, extends to the rear to the left.

The interior was only partially inspected. The hall roof features two moulded octagonal crown-posts in the centre, and one moulded semi-octagonal pilaster crown-post at each end, all with braces of square section to a collar purlin and collars. A staggered butt-purlin roof is found in the left cross-wing. A stone-vaulted L-plan "cellar," likely dating to the 13th century rather than the 14th, has a bevelled pointed arch to the entrance at the narrower foot of the L and two broad, plain-chamfered round-arched ribs to the main section. A blocked, chamfered rectangular lancet with a broad, rounded rere-arch is located at the end of the narrower section. The building was formerly known as Court Lodge and served as a country residence for Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman between 1872 and 1908.