Bradley Court

Manor House. Dated 1559 above the entrance. The building is constructed of roughcast rendering with limestone window surrounds, coping, finials, chimney stacks, and stone slate roofs. The southern entrance front has four main gables, with a gabled two-storey central porch and flanking symmetrical polygonal stair towers. It is two storeys high with an attic, and includes a cellar beneath the western part. A two-storey addition was built around 1800 to the north, and a single-storey addition to the east. The windows are a mix of two- and three-light mullioned windows, along with six-over-six pane sash windows on the ground floor of the west side of the house and to the northern extension. The sash windows on the first floor of the northern elevation feature Gothick ogee-headed glazing. The porch gable apex has a date stone inscribed "ANNO DNI 1559" below a ball finial. The entrance door is of studded oak planks with heavy hinges and cover strips.

The interior retains its original single-room-deep plan, with a screens passage layout, and later northern and eastern extensions. Numerous original features remain, including cupboards, shutters, and doors. The stone-flagged cellar has barred square window openings. There are two circular wooden staircases with plain circular newels, some treads replaced with boards. The entrance hall features fielded panelling with a depressed arch opening into the library, which contains a recently installed chimneypiece. A bolection doorcase leads to the kitchen passage, and a stone kitchen chimneypiece dates to around 1700. The rear music room has a high ceiling with a central rose and cornice ornamented with guilloche and acanthus leaf motifs, and features a recently introduced limestone Rococo chimney piece. A rear staircase in the north extension has turned columnar newels and square rails. On the first floor, there are fielded doors and panelled rooms, a stone four-centred arched fireplace, and stone chimney pieces dating to around 1700. The attic is continuous with partly exposed roof trusses.

Bradley Court belonged to the Berkeley family until 1611. It replaced an earlier moated house located some distance to the north. In 1692, Thomas Dawes (died 1713) acquired the house and was responsible for alterations to the house and grounds. It was extensively conserved in 1984 by Rory Young.