Butlers Court With Gatepiers And Wall To South East

This is a large detached house, with a southwest range dating to the mid-to-late 17th century, and subsequent enlargement in the early 18th century on the southeast side and in the 19th century to the northwest. The building is constructed of random and coursed rubble stone, with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges and substantial ashlar stacks with moulded cornices, including a ridge stack on the southwest front with diagonally-set paired flues. The house has a U-shaped layout, primarily two storeys and an attic.

The southeast entrance front features a moulded stone cornice and parapet linking a four-bay coursed stone extension to the right with two original rubble stone bays to the left. It has six windows, each featuring 12-pane sashes in moulded stone surrounds; four to the right have large flush stone lintels. The ground floor has five similar windows, two to the left with a single relieving arch over, three to the right, and a flat-arched doorway to the left of centre with moulded stone jambs and lintel, and an eight-panel field panelled door.

The older southwest front has two gables, coped with kneelers, each with a three-light stone mullion window on the first floor. The first floor windows are two-light, four-light, two-light, four-light arrangements, all with relieving arches. The ground floor windows are similarly arranged with relieving arches. All windows have ovolo-moulded frames with square hoodmoulds. The north end has a hipped roof that sweeps down to a single-story section with two gabled attic dormers, all rebuilt following a fire in the 1960s. A further 19th-century two-story cottage adjoins the northwest corner, featuring cambered stone archery openings.

The interior includes a fine panelled room on the ground floor of the 18th-century extension, and some panelling in the 17th-century rooms.

A pair of ashlar gatepiers stand to the southeast of the house; they are square on bases, with indented corners and widely projecting moulded cornices, square caps and flattened pyramidal finials, reaching a total height of approximately 3 metres. A coped rubble stone wall curves up to the piers, dips in the centre, then rises again at each end to connect to the perimeter wall, extending for about 10 metres. The gates are wrought iron, likely 20th-century and not of particular interest.