Hurlditch Court

Hurlditch Court is a late 19th-century house built on the site of an earlier building for Reginald Moreshead by architect Walter Sarel, with internal alterations carried out in the 20th century.

The building is constructed of slatestone ashlar with granite and limestone dressings, some areas of slate-hanging, and slate roofs with ridge stacks and rear lateral stacks with caps. It is arranged in an overall T-plan with a long cross wing at the right end and a 2-storey porch positioned in the angle between the wings. The cross wing extends to the rear where it contains service rooms, with an entrance positioned mid-way along the right side and another to the rear. The main range contains a stair hall with the stair positioned to the rear, and living rooms.

The house rises to 2½ storeys with a front elevation of 3:1:1 windows. The gable end of the cross wing to the left features a 5-light mullioned window at ground and first floor level, hollow-chamfered with hood-mould and decorative leaded lights at ground floor. A similar ground and first floor 3-light casement window sits above, with a stepped plinth below. The 2-storey gabled porch in the angle has a 4-centred arched doorway with hood-mould, stops and carved roundels in the spandrels, with a small square blind opening above and a 3-light casement. The porch has bargeboards, and the left side features a ground floor 2-light window with ogee granite heads (possibly reused from the earlier building) with a fleuron in the spandrel and hood-mould.

The 2-storey range to the left displays 6- and 5-light ground floor windows with decorative leaded lights and hood-mould. The first floor has two 3-light and one 4-light similar windows. Carved brackets sit under the eaves. The wall extends further left with coping and a round-headed, roll-moulded opening. The gable end of this range has a returned string course and bargeboards.

The right return is fenestrated with six windows: at first floor level they contain 3, 2, two single, 3 and 4 lights respectively, matching those on the front. The ground floor similarly has varied fenestration with hood-mould. The third bay from the left features a similar 4-centred arched doorway. There are three external stacks, with the central one corbelled and a first floor cill string. The second floor has three raking dormers with 3-light casements, two unequal gables each with two single lights of different sizes, and a stack rising through the centre. A bellcote with ogee roof and ball finial sits on the ridge. A plinth runs along the base.

The left return is slate-hung. The inner side of the wing to the right contains an 8-light mullion and transom window lighting the stair, and a small flat-roofed addition in the angle with a 2-light casement, a single light below the stair light and a 2-light wooden casement above. A gabled dormer set back has a 2-light casement and bargeboards. The gable to the left has two 2-light casements at ground and first floor with hood below first floor cills, and a granite quoin strip to the left. The rear to the left has a door and 3-light casement with a wooden porch.

At the rear, a slate-hung gable end contains a 2-light casement at first floor and a single storey lower wing with two single lights square in a hollow-chamfered surround and a 3-light opening to the side with hollow-chamfered mullions. A wall attached to the right encloses an inner courtyard, standing about 2 metres high in rubble with a 4-centred arched chamfered opening, possibly reused.

The interior displays Jacobean style features including a panelled hall to the rear with a flat-headed granite fireplace flanked by carved caryatids and panelling. Ground floor rooms are similarly panelled. The front right room features carved fluted pilasters to the sides of a blocked fireplace. An open well stair has carved balusters, moulded grip handrail, finials and pendants, with panelled doors.