Luckington Court

Luckington Court is a house built around 1700 for H. Fitzherbert, with a core that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It was restored in 1921 by Easton & Robertson for E. Johnson-Ferguson. The exterior features colourwashed roughcast on rubble stone, stone slate roofs, and ashlar stacks. The building is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan, with its main facade facing east and south. The south side likely refaces earlier work, which is more evident in the northwest service range.

The east front has five windows and a hipped roof with moulded coping to the parapet and corner urns. It features eighteen-pane thick-glazing-bar sashes set in ovolo-moulded stone surrounds, along with two lead downpipes. The central door, added in 1921, has a Grinling Gibbons style carved wood surround and fielded panelled double doors, which are set within an ashlar semi-circular Roman Doric porch supported by two columns and pilaster responds. It is suggested that the doors and surround are reused elements. The south front mirrors this with four windows, a four-shaft ridge stack, and a two-shaft stack at the west end, although the window bays are not evenly spaced.

There is a slightly set-back additional bay at the west end, added in 1921, which features a projecting ground floor three-bay loggia. The north end of the east front includes a similar eighteen-pane upper window and a ground floor lean-to from around 1921. To the right, part of the original range is visible, showcasing a ridge stack and a west end stack, with the north gable featuring a two-light mullion-and-transom ovolo-moulded window on each floor. To the right of this is a 1921 service wing that runs north.

Inside, the house has a bolection-moulded fireplace in the hall and two panelled rooms from around 1700 on the south side, both with bolection-moulded fireplaces. The fireplace in the southeast room appears to be an earlier opening, possibly from the early 16th century. There is an enclosed stair with a panelled dado and turned balusters leading to the landing, and the original house's mullion and transom stair-light is now internal, with the upper part of a spiral staircase still remaining. The site is historically significant, said to be where a manor owned by King Harold existed before 1066, and it was owned by the Fitzherbert family from the 17th century to the early 19th century.