Gastard Court Farmhouse

Gastard Court Farmhouse is a late medieval and 17th-century farmhouse constructed from rubble stone, topped with a half-hipped Bridgwater tile roof featuring a ridge stack. The building has a large projecting gable on the crosswing to the right of the center, which extends to the rear with a chimney gable on the west side. The north front displays, on the left, two large buttresses flanking a three-light recessed ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould. Next to this is a door set in a 19th-century flush surround, topped by a dormer gable and a two-light recessed cyma-moulded window. The crosswing gable projects slightly with a higher roof line, featuring a three-light recessed cyma-moulded window and hoodmould on each floor. To the right, there is a range of similar roof height with a roof that continues over a lean-to, which includes a door and various windows. The rear of the farmhouse has a similar pair of heavy buttresses to the right, flanking a two-light recessed cyma-moulded window. Above this is a gable with a three-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould. To the right, there is an upper casement pair and a door in the angle to the crosswing. The crosswing features a two-light window with a hoodmould on the east side at ground floor level, and a three-light window with a hoodmould at the south end on each floor, all ovolo-moulded, along with a large chimney gable to the west. The range to the left has 19th-century two-light windows, one above and two below. Inside, the east end room boasts a heavy beamed four-panel ceiling and a large timber lintel fireplace. The house was owned by the Jones family around 1560, then passed to R. Sherfield in 1605, the Colborne family from 1631 to 1744, and finally to the Mitchell family from 1744 to 1876.