Howe Court

Howe Court is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with partial rebuilding in the early 17th century and a 19th-century addition. The right side is half timber-framed, mostly plastered, with a brick gable, while the left side has been rebuilt with thick brick walls in English bond. The house has a plain tile roof and consists of four bays, featuring storeyed bays at either end and a hall area of two unequal bays. The right bay is likely always floored, while the left is narrower and probably served as a smoke bay. The smoke bay and the entire left end were rebuilt in the early 17th century when a stack was added. The building has two storeys on a stone plinth, with a full-height post located halfway along the right side. The roof is hipped with a gablet on the right, and there is a large multiple stack on the front slope of the roof, slightly off-centre to the left, along with a small projecting stack at the right end. The fenestration is irregular, featuring two 3-light casements. To the left, there is a late 16th-century or early 17th-century rear wing that is integral with the left end of the main range. The large 19th-century addition is located at the centre of the front elevation, with an ashlared stone ground floor, tile-hung first floor, and a plain-tile roof. This addition is two storeys high on a plinth, very wide, with a jettied first floor on either side, bargeboards, and a small stack to the right. There is one 3-light casement and a boarded door in an early 20th-century lean-to on the left. Inside, the house features exposed beams, joists, and posts, with a clasped purlin roof that has queen struts and windbraces on the right side, and a plain clasped purlin roof on the left.