Court Farmhouse

Court Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a monastic grange associated with Sherborne Abbey. The building dates back to around the 14th century, with walls and a porch from the north range, which underwent remodeling in the 17th century, and a south wing added in the 18th century. The structure features rubble-stone walls with stone quoins, and roofs made of asbestos slate and slate. The north range has a brick stack on the ridge and stone stacks on the gable ends of the south wing, with stone gable copings topped with a small apex finial.

On the west elevation of the north range, the farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has four windows featuring 2- and 3-light square stone mullions dating from around 1700, although the upper windows are modern insertions from the 20th century. The entrance is through a stone porch located at the angle of the two ranges, which has a pointed arch entrance with straight-chamfered jambs and head, and a moulded label above. The jambs are rebated, and the door is made of five planks and studded. Above the entrance is a 3-light porch window with square stone mullions. To the left of the centre is another doorway with similar jambs and a pointed-arch head, featuring a 20th-century multi-panelled door.

The south elevation of the south range has a plinth and rubble walls with ashlar quoins, also two storeys high, and features three windows with 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, each with separate labels. A re-set medieval head corbel is positioned above the centre window. The north gable wall includes a small lancet window, low down to the left, which is straight-chamfered and fitted with fixed lead lights, with the left jamb incised with an "S".

Inside the north range, there are heavy sawn ceiling beams with tongued stops, one of which is incised with "1780". The room features a 17th-century open fireplace with stone jambs and a cambered straight-chamfered lintel, also with tongued stops, and a bread oven built into the left brick wall. The floor in the room behind the porch is made of flagstones. The roof is of King-post construction with diagonal struts to the principals, dating from the 19th century, and there is no earlier roof present in the north range.