Brayne Court

Brayne Court is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the 17th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed mainly of roughly-squared red sandstone, with some areas of random rubble, and features a timber-framed porch block filled with wattle and daub. The roofs are tiled, accented by scalloped bargeboards. The house is arranged in an "L" shape, facing away from the road, and extends over two storeys with attics, incorporating a cellar.

The main entrance is on the garden side, leading to a two-storey gabled porch with a jettied first floor and a timber-frame facade with two-panel divisions on each level. To the left of the porch is a gabled stone block, featuring a square bay with a lean-to roof, three-light hollow-chamfered oak casement windows with timber lintels, a blocked cellar window below, and a small attic window above. To the right is a taller block with two windows, topped by two stone dormers. The ground floor features mullion and transom windows, some of which have been converted into French doors, with buttresses between. A single-storey stone bay with a two-light wooden-mullion and transom window, divided into octagonal panes with coloured glass squares, is also present. A two-storey lean-to extends from this section. The road-facing block has a central gable with a large chimney; to its left, a slight setback reveals a single first-floor window, and a projecting gabled extension. A blocked door is visible at ground floor level. To the right of the chimney is a three-light wooden mullion and transom oriel window. A lower block situated behind the porch is slightly set back, with the lower two-thirds of its wall representing the oldest part of the house; it includes a two-light stone-mullioned window with hollow chamfer molding and a blocked door below. Further to the right, beyond a rendered gable, is a heavy ovolo-moulded door frame with a boarded door.

Inside, a dog-leg staircase features panelled newels. A room to the left showcases 17th-century dust-ledge panelling, a scratch-moulded panelled door, and a stone fireplace with a depressed ogee-head. The main room to the right contains a heavy longitudinal ovolo-moulded beam, supported by two plain cross beams, which may have been added when a partition on the line of the bay was removed. The fireplace in this room has hollow-chamfered molding with a Tudor arch, a deep lintel above decorated with a row of diamond-shaped pellets, and Jacobean-style 19th-century panelling. On the first floor, two reeded door surrounds, dating to the first half of the 19th century, are present; one is embellished with two figures carrying shields. A bolection-moulded fireplace is found in the room with the oriel window. The house is believed to have been used as a pin factory in the 18th century.