Butlers Court

Butlers Court is a house believed to have originated in the 16th century, although the earliest surviving structural features date from the 17th century. It was raised in the 18th century and extended to the rear in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with semi-dressed quoins and has a stone slate roof, along with ashlar and rendered chimneys featuring moulded stone strings.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with four bays. The ground floor includes three four-light windows that have recessed hollow-chamfered stone mullions and Tudor hoodmoulds, although the centre window was completely renewed in the 20th century. The first floor features wide three-pane sash windows, also renewed in the 20th century, with wooden lintels and some alterations to the jambs. There are three small gabled roof dormers with paired barred wooden casements. The second bay has 20th-century metal French doors, and there is a single-storey 20th-century garden room extension to the right.

The right gable end shows traces of a 17th-century roofline. At the rear, there are 20th-century double doors in a four-centred wooden arch, and an early to mid-19th-century parallel range. This range includes a stair window, four-pane sashes on the first floor, two two-light stone mullion windows on the ground floor, and a later 19th-century stone bay window with arched lights.

Inside, there is a fireplace in the original right bay with dressed stone jambs and a renewed wooden lintel. A passage beside the stack features two 16th-century wooden doorways, likely re-sited, with four-centred arches, stopped mouldings, and small shields in the spandrels. One doorway has carved feathering in the spandrels. The 19th-century dog-leg stair has a split balustrade and possibly re-uses older turned newels.