Vale Court

Vale Court is a house that appears to date from the 17th century and was significantly extended around 1925. It is constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and has two and a half and three storeys. The original house is L-shaped, featuring coped gables and end wall stacks. The front range has a two-window arrangement of three-light cyma-moulded mullion windows, with a string course between the first and second floors. The ground floor is built out in rock-faced masonry, likely from the late 19th century, and includes a reused late 18th-century Adam style porch with two columns and a fluted frieze.

On the east face, there is a two-light cyma-moulded window on the second floor. The south end has an added wing with a coped gable, a large stepped buttress on the east side, and Tudor-style windows and a door from the early 20th century. Additionally, there is a later 20th-century stone two-storey canted bay with mullion and transom windows. On the west side of the wing, there is a single-storey early 19th-century ashlar bow-fronted room with glazing bar windows. The west side of the house features a two-window range of mullion windows with hoodmoulds on the first floor, where the windows are cyma-moulded except for a recessed three-light ovolo-moulded window on the left. The ground floor includes a 20th-century five-light window.

To the east, there is a large wing built around 1925 for the Wills family, which has an external stack, two storeys, and a three-window range of mullion windows. The ground floor has a centre mullion and transom window, and to the right, a two-storey bay with mullion windows above and mullion and transom windows below.

Inside, the house has been much restored and features a fine Renaissance-style hall fireplace from around 1925, made of stone with a carved frieze of lions and griffins and a carved surround. The rear room of the 1925 range has a small stone Tudor-arched moulded fireplace that has been reused, and the south wing contains a Tudor-arched fireplace also reused from elsewhere in the house. There are six-panel doors in the early 19th-century southwest room and panelling within. The house is said to date from around 1590.