Old Court

Old Court is a house, originally divided into flats and subsequently reunited. It dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The house is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and coursed rubble to the side. It has a stone slate roof with a stone stack just above the eaves on the right-hand side, and two stone stacks to the rear.

The house is three storeys high, with cellars, and has a seven-window front. The first floor has seven stone mullion-and-transom windows with flat beaded stone surrounds and moulded cills containing leaded lights. Above, there are also seven similar windows, with the surrounds continuing upwards as flat panels into the bedmould of the eaves cornice. The ground floor has six similar stone mullion-and-transom windows. A recessed six-panel door is set within a timber surround with a fanlight and flanking pilasters, all contained within a flat, chamfered stone surround that has a pulvinated frieze and a moulded cornice. There is a plinth with three openings to the cellar, one of which is blocked. Band courses are present above the ground and first floors, and there is a moulded timber eaves cornice. Rusticated quoins are visible to the left and right angles.

The interior was partially inspected. A mid-18th century open-well oak staircase leads from the ground floor to the first floor, featuring turned balusters. A small room, now open to the entrance hall, has early to mid-18th century painted panelling on the rear wall, featuring fluted pilasters and a modillion cornice, along with a late 18th century grate in a small stone fireplace. It is reported that there is an oak-panelled dining room (not inspected) with a stone chimneypiece incorporating classical colonnettes.

A contemporary wing and a probably later wing to the rear have undergone later and early 20th century alterations. It is said that the house originally had gables to the front, and traces of these are reportedly visible in the roof structure (not inspected).