Seaborough Court

Seaborough Court is a country house dating to 1877, designed by T.H. Wyatt. It is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and has clay tile roofs with two gables facing the front. Stone stacks, clustered together, are situated on the gable ends and at the rear of a tower. The house is arranged around a U-shaped plan, with the main entrance facing east, the garden front on the south, and a service wing to the north. It has two storeys and attics.

The east front has four bays. The first bay features a three-light canted oriel window on the first floor, supported by buttresses and topped with a stone roof. This oriel incorporates ovolo-stone mullions. Above is a two-light stone mullion window within the gable, topped with a strapwork roundel. Each gable has a single crow-step set-off and a ball finial at the apex. The second bay contains a tower porch with a four-centred arch entrance framed by diagonally-set standards bearing carved armorials (the Gough family crest) and terminating in statues. A single-light first floor window has cusped panelling in its head, with two loop-lights above. A balustraded cornice leads to the tower top stage, which has two four-centred windows with panel tracery and square heads, divided by pilasters, above a massive cornice and an open strapwork parapet with urn finials. The third bay has a four-light stone mullion window with two cross-transoms, and the first floor has a two-light stone mullion window, also transomed. A dormer window, with a two-light mullion sashed window and a steep gable, sits above. The fourth bay has a square bay window on both the ground and first floors, featuring two two-light mullions with cross-transoms, and a strapwork parapet. A window in the gable is similar to that in the first bay, with a matching roundel, gable-coping, and finial.

The south elevation incorporates a three-storey canted bay on the left and a gable with stacks projecting from the left side on the right. A conservatory occupies the left ground floor – it features three bays with stone pilaster divisions and foliage capitals. A loggia, dated 1907 (WEM), is situated on the extreme left (west) and comprises three bays of Tuscan Order arches, open on the front.

The interior includes a central hall, reception rooms to the south, a dining room, and a service wing. The hall features a staircase with a “barley-sugar” and turned-cube-turned balusters made of pine. There are large Perpendicular windows with stained glass armorials, including arms of the Gough family.