Horsley Court

Horsley Court is a large detached house built around 1690, with alterations and expansions made around 1820, and a central tower added around 1850. The building features random and coursed rubble limestone, mostly covered in roughcast render, with ashlar and brick chimneys. The roof is made of stone and Welsh slate.

The front of the house is two stories with an attic and includes a central three-story tower. There is a two-story rear wing and an attached cider house. The front showcases a central tower projection with rusticated quoins and moulded eaves leading to a hipped roof. Each face of the tower has a single window, with one featuring a two-light design with pointed heads and the others being sash windows. There is also a round-arched sash window on the upper floor. The central doorway has a reset stone lintel inscribed with 'G E W 1608'. The front facade has six windows, all sash with 12 panes and plain architraves, and deep coved eaves. There are six pedimented roof dormers with 9-pane sashes and gable end chimneys, with the south chimney rebuilt featuring two diagonal-set brick shafts.

The rear of the house is an L-plan block, mainly rebuilt around 1820 but incorporating earlier masonry. It has two tall two-light ovlo moulded windows with hoodmoulds on each floor, set below a parapet gable that features a tall chimney. The projecting wing to the left includes similar three-light windows. The attached cider house has two timber mullioned windows on the ground floor and a row of pigeon holes below the eaves, with stone steps leading to a loft doorway in the gable end.

Inside, there is an original dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. One room features delicate ceiling plasterwork with realistic rose decoration and reeding. A unique aspect of the house is the formerly removable ceiling in the dining room, which was originally raised to create a gallery when the room served as a courthouse. A matching recess is retained in the upper floor ceiling. The cider house contains a stone cider press with a horse's harness. A dated stone door-lintel may be a remnant from a previous house, with initials belonging to the Webb family of clothiers. The property also includes a dovecote to the southwest and a coach house to the south.