Court Leet is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House.
Court Leet
- WRENN ID
- carved-brass-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court Leet is a building that consists of four cottages, now converted into one house, with a datestone indicating it was built in 1830. The structure is made of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and features a 20th-century tile roof with two stone ridge stacks. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has a four-window range. There are four entrances, one at each end and two in the center, all featuring chamfered jambs and hood moulds with label stops, and all have plank doors.
On either side of the central doors, there are two three-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. The first floor has four similar two-light stone mullioned windows. The central gabled bay includes a two-light stone mullioned window with cusped heads, hood mould, and label stops. The owner notes that the gables once had ball finials, and the building has stone copings with kneelers. Above the central doorways, there is a Latin inscription that reads: "Unless the Lord is with us we build in vain."
Historically, the building known as The Court may have originally served as the church house and was later used for court leets. The rear part of the building dates back to the 17th century, while the main structure was rebuilt in the 19th century as four tenements, with Robert Cleaver as the mason. The cottages were converted into a single house in 1963, and the interior has been updated in the 20th century.
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