Ely Court

Ely Court is a house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations from 1721 and a later 18th or early 19th century facade. It is timber-framed and the front elevation is of chequered red and grey brick. The gable ends are brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above. The house originally comprised two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay, with a further bay added to the right in the 18th century. It has two storeys and a garret. A plat band runs around the building, and there is a banded brick eaves cornice below a low brick-coped parapet. A broad, shallow central break is topped by a pediment which steps up and is cambered above it. The roof is half-hipped. A brick ridge stack to the left of the centre is dated 1721, and there is a rear stack to the right. The front has a regular five-window arrangement, with four recessed 12-pane sashes and a central 16-pane sash, each with splayed pointed voussoirs. A central panelled door is sheltered by a flat-roofed brick porch, which extends across the front and features ball finials. At the rear is a lean-to addition to the left and a short, two-storey wing towards the centre, which incorporates a late 16th or early 17th century stair turret. The interior retains exposed timber framing and includes a five-light diamond mullion window to the former right gable end. The roof structure comprises clasped purlins, windbraces, diminishing principal rafters, and vertical queen-struts to the collars.