Kingswood Court

House, now an old people's home, built in 1912. Designed by Ernest Newton, with builders Messrs Collins and Godfrey of Tewksbury. The building is constructed of purplish red brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof.

The house is two storeys with attic accommodation, with a single-storey service wing featuring an attic. The entrance elevation comprises a three-bay service wing to the left of the main range, which extends across eleven bays. The central and end bays project forward. The design follows the Neo-Georgian style.

The elevation features a plinth, rusticated quoins, and giant pilasters with bands of darker brick rising into a moulded cornice. The parapet is coped with dies positioned over the pilasters. Windows are twelve-pane sashes set within keyed flat brick arches with stone sills. The central bay contains an ashlar porch with Ionic columns supporting a round-arched hood. The entrance itself comprises recessed panelled double doors with side-lights featuring linked oval glazing bars and a small-paned fanlight. The first-floor window above is set in a raised panel with moulded brick architrave. The returns on either side have oculi to the ground floor and first-floor windows set in moulded brick architraves. Bays 8 and 9 are blind on the ground floor except for an oculus on the right; both have tall eighteen-pane sashed stair windows to the first floor. The roof is M-shaped, hipped at the ends and over the projecting end bays, and features eight two-light leaded casement dormers with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Three broad corniced stacks rise in the valley.

The service wing to the left is set back and features three two-light leaded windows to the ground floor and one to the centre of the first floor, which breaks the eaves line beneath a hipped roof. A circa 1980 annexe was added to the right and is not of special interest.

The garden elevation features nine bays arranged 1:2:1:2:1:2, with the two right-hand bays being subsidiary and slightly set back. The main range has a central entrance and two-storey canted bays to the outer bays, with a lower service wing to the right. A platt band runs across the central bays. The central entrance bay has paired double doors with small-pane glazing set within a semicircular ashlar portico with three steps, Ionic columns in antis supporting an entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice, and a balcony above with decorative iron railings. The first-floor bay projects forward three times and features a tall sash window with fanlight in a rusticated round-arched surround. Eight dormers as on the entrance elevation, but these feature four lights over the entrance. The left return has a small-paned double door in a moulded brick architrave with a blind window above, a canted bay on the left, and three segmental pedimented dormers.

The interior retains original decoration including panelling, moulded cornices, ceiling mouldings, panelled doors, and decorative fireplaces. The entrance lobby has a marbled floor, plaster festoons, and a quadripartite vault. The entrance and stair halls are particularly lavish. The entrance hall features an elaborate architrave to the door into the former study. The stair hall contains a wooden open-string stair with turned, fluted balusters, columnar newels, and a ramped handrail with a massive spiral curtail. On the first-floor landing there is an Ionic colonnade in antis. The house is described by Newton's son as one of his four great houses.