Court Farmhouse

Court Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse, now a house, located on Holborn Hill in Letcombe Bassett. It exhibits mid-17th century square timber framing with diagonal braces, although the right wing has irregular light framing. The rear ground floor and the right gable are brick, and the roof is thatched, with one brick and one chalk stack present laterally on the right. The building follows a three-unit lobby entry plan, with two storeys on the left and one-and-a-half storeys on the right. The garden front features a four-window range to the left, and a gable wall marking the later wing on the right. Modern casements and a front door are visible. The roof is hipped and half-hipped, and original ridge and lateral stacks remain. Inside, original ribbed doors are present, along with both quarter-turn and straight-flight staircases opposite the entry. A straight-flight staircase to the left adjoins an original timber-framed partition. The left side of the house contains a full set of chamfered and stopped beams to both the ground and first floors, along with chamfered bressumers over the fireplaces in the ground and first floor rooms. The roof structure includes a queen-post and collar-truss roof with butt purlins.