Court Farmhouse

SO 8103 KING'S STANLEY BROAD STREET (south side)

13/3 Court Farmhouse

28.6.60

GV II*

Detached farmhouse. C15, late C16, c1800 and mid-late C19 additions. Dressed, squared and coursed rubble limestone; artificial stone-rebuilt shafts to ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey range; two 2-storey west wings; east stair wing; dairy at south end. West side: 2 parapet-gabled wings, right having finial; single-window 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned fenestration except for ground floor 2+2-light to left wing, all with hoodmoulds. Two-window sash fenstration with plain architraves between wings: 12-pane with thick glazing bars to ground floor; 4-pane to upper floor. Central gabled roof dormer to attic with C20 casement. High stone plinth to central part of elevation. Right is C15 part with upper floor trefoil-headed lancet, the lower part being blocked by enclosed lean-to porch extending roof from mid-late C19 dairy at south end with small parapet gable having shuttered opening. Left of central part of range is c1800 addition with doorway having 6-panel door with rectangular light over; 2 eaves- mounted roof dormers with C20 casements. Ridge-mounted chimneys indicate ends of this addition. South end: gable-mounted chimney has 2 diagonal shafts; off- centre 2-light upper floor mullioned casement with hoodmould. Parapet gabled end to dairy off-centre to main gable has 2+2-light ground floor casement. Attached lean-to and outbuildings link with small C17 stone-built building. East side: parapet gabled stair wing has finial and 2-light upper floor casement, off-centre ground floor singe-light, both with hoods. Roof of main range to left is extended in catslide forming large C19 porch and supported on stone columns with cushion capitals and moulded bases. Fenestration otherwise is mix of sash and mullioned windows. North end: parapet-gabled; single-window fenestration with deep stone lintels, 12-pane sash to ground floor with C20 small-paned casement above. Interior: upper floor room at south end of building has C15 cambered ceiling having central stone moulded rib and stone corbel blocks; spandrels having carved timber panelling. Pointed-arched doorway on west side of this room is concealed from exterior by late C16 addition, but has hoodmould and was probably an external entrance. Ceiling of room below has compartmental design with heavily moulded beams, probably an alteration of late C16. History of house is linked with both the borough and manor of King's Stanley. Forms part of group with court house and barn (q.v.). (N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242- 257)

Listing NGR: SO8147403276