Pitt Court Manor

A farmhouse, now a house, likely dating to the 16th century or earlier, was significantly remodelled and extended in the late 17th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with roughcast to the front, and has a pantile roof and brick stacks. The original plan was of three units, with end stacks and an axial hall stack backing onto a blocked passage. A late 17th-century wing was added to the rear right, extending behind the parlour and creating an L-shaped layout, and an outshut stair is located at the angle of the rear wing. The front elevation has two storeys and three windows, featuring a mid-20th century porch and 3-4-light windows. The right-hand gable contains a late 17th-century two-light wood-mullioned stair window and a large chamfered lintel over a chamfered 2-light wood-mullioned first-floor window. The rear elevation has a chamfered surround to a small window located behind the hall stack. A 19th-century rear lean-to, with a plank door and pantile roof, is present on the rear wing.

The interior features chamfered ogee-stopped and ovolo-moulded beams throughout. A first-floor room on the left has morticed soffits to the cross beam and two axial beams, indicating the former location of a closet. Timber-framed partitions are on the first floor to the right, with the right-hand room showcasing a rare surviving example of a newel stair constructed from solid timber treads. The roof includes three 18th-century trusses to the left of the stack, with tusk tenoned purlins. The service end rear wall has been rebuilt. Adjacent to the right side of the stack is an early 17th/late 16th-century collar truss with trenched principals, along with two bays of central trusses with a cambered collar. A 17th-century oak-framed doorway with a chamfered arched surround leads from this range into the right-hand section of the roof, which appears to have originally formed a cross-wing gable to the front. There are also two late 17th-century trusses with tenoned purlins and threaded ridge. The right-hand ground-floor section of the house retains a late medieval-type oak-framed chamfered, 2-centred doorway. A panelled parlour, dating to circa 1730–40, features a dentilled cornice, panelled doors, later graffiti dated 1781, and a fine overmantle painting depicting a hunting scene flanked by fluted pilasters with a Doric entablature. A 18th-century surround frames a 17th-century fireplace with stop-chamfered bressummer.