Court Lodge

House. The origins of Court Lodge date to the mid 16th century, with later additions and alterations in the late 16th century and a mid 17th-century refacing. The house is timber framed with plaster infilling and some brick nogging, with the timber framing exposed in the east wing. The majority of the exterior is clad in red brick in English bond, featuring scattered grey headers. The roof is covered in plain tiles.

The original core of the house is a mid 16th-century range running parallel to, and set well back from, the road. This range comprises three timber-framed bays, with a large stack at the end of the central bay and a projecting rear stair turret. A late 16th-century range was added at right angles to the front, creating a T-shaped plan with one long and one short timber-framed bay. A later addition along most of the south elevation incorporates the staircase. The mid 16th-century range is two storeys high, while the late 16th-century range is two storeys with an attic.

The north elevation features a mid 16th-century range to the left set upon a flint plinth, with the remainder of the wing built on a brick plinth. The mid 16th-century range has broadly-spaced timber studs and slightly curved tension braces. The late 16th-century range is characterized by a moulded brick string course, stepped over the windows and door and running along the right end elevation. The roofs merge at the junction, otherwise are hipped. Multiple brick ridge stacks are positioned towards the centre of the mid 16th-century range and towards the right end of the late 16th-century range; the latter has a brick stack on a flint base with two diagonal flues to its right end. The north elevation includes one 2-light and one 4-light ovolo-moulded wood mullion window, the latter with a moulded bracket below. The late 16th-century range has irregular fenestration incorporating three chamfered brick mullion windows rendered to resemble stone, alongside a full-height 20th-century mullioned and transomed window. Plank doors are situated at the north end of the west elevation of the mid 16th-century wing and in a 19th-century architrave on the left end of the late 16th-century wing.

The south elevation features a brick addition to the late 16th-century range, using more vitreous bricks than the north elevation. This addition has two gables, each with a rendered brick mullion window in the attic. There are three 3-light mullioned windows to the first floor with hood-moulds, and two to the ground floor. A central 19th-century plank door is adorned with carved spandrels. A recess between the addition and the end of the mid 16th-century range contains a 5-light brick mullion window. The gable end of the mid 16th-century range is also cased in brick, with a plinth and a flipped roof. Single-light and 3-light plain wood casements are positioned to the first floor, while two 2-light brick mullioned windows are present on the ground floor with hood-moulds over.

The interior is reputed to contain exposed timber framing, a large, finely carved wood fireplace bressumer, a staircase with turned balusters, an original shutter to a window in the mid 16th-century range, clasped purlin roofs, partitions dated 158- and 162(2), and a datestone from 1638, originally from the late 16th-century wing. The building is shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Court Lodge.