Maisemore Court, Old Court, New Court

Former manor house, now farmhouse and two attached houses at Maisemore. The building dates from the early seventeenth century and was enlarged and altered in the late eighteenth century for W. Pitt, with further changes in the nineteenth century and minor mid-twentieth-century alterations.

The construction comprises pebble-dashed render over stonework with ashlar quoins and details to the bow window. The north-west corner is English bond brickwork whilst the north-east uses Monk bond. The roof is slate. The plan is irregular H-shaped with a five-bay entrance front to the garden, a three-bay link, two rooms deep, and two-and-a-half storeys overall.

The east front (entrance front), dating from the late eighteenth century to 1940s, has a stone plinth and flush stone quoins to the main section, with a dummy window recess on the left. The entrance comprises a half-glazed door with two flush panels below and flush-panelled reveals, approached by four stone steps with nosings. Half Doric columns flank the door, with a full frieze and pediment featuring guttae above. Two sashes are positioned to the right. On the first floor is a blind window and three sashes, with a plain string course and parapet above, and plain stone capping sweeping up to three equally spaced plain brick chimneys. Two gabled dormers behind in the gaps between chimneys contain two-light casements, with a large chimney on the ridge behind the right-hand eaves. The parapet gables have cross-gablet apices. A lower wing slightly set back on the right features a six-panel door on the left (up one wooden step, with the top two panels glazed) and a sixteen-pane sash to the right. Above are two sixteen-pane sashes, a plain parapet, and a parapet gable on the right.

The left return (south façade) has gabled wings to right and left, with a plinth and flush quoins. The right gable has a two-storey bow window with curved sashes and ashlar pillars between; to the left are three sash windows in a set-back centre, and a three-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window in the left wing with hoodmould. The first floor bay on the right corresponds to that below, with a plain parapet to the flat roof; two sashes in the set-back centre and one in the left wing. Parapet gables to the wings contain former two-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows (the centre mullion has since been removed), with a two-light casement inserted on the right and a six-pane window on the left. A large external stone chimney on the left return has stone offsets and a brick top.

The interior of Maisemore Court features dado rails and moulded cornices to the main rooms on the ground floor, with panelled shutters to rooms on the left. The hall has stone paving and six-panel doors with a dentil cornice. The stairs have fretwork ends to the treads, turned balusters, moulded handrail, and a wreath at the bottom, ramped to landings, with an oval dome above. The left front room contains an Adam-style fireplace over a stone surround with a cast-iron fireback dated IFC 1588, said to have come from Sussex, and dust-ledge panelling probably dating from the late nineteenth century. Behind this room is a fireplace with cornice brought out over windows. An early eighteenth-century stone fireplace surround with keystone is in the pantry, which includes a cast-iron grate for heating flat irons. A painting of a man with a whip is visible on a wall in a cupboard off the kitchen. On the first floor, six-panel doors with panelled shutters serve most rooms. Three stone fireplace surrounds with cast-iron grates are present. The main bedroom has dust-ledge panelling and an Adam-style fireplace with a cast-iron grate featuring a reeded frame and corner paterae. A timber-framed wall in square panels appears in an adjacent room with a boarded door with L-hinges. The main roof has two pairs of purlins with curved wind braces; an angle-strut truss over the kitchen has one pair of purlins and a square ridge.

Old Court comprises timber-framed cross walls with segmental door heads and a close-studded wall to the rear. The main room on the right has exposed, unchamfered joists. Dust-ledge panelling appears in the first-floor room of the centre link, with a hollow chamfer to a two-light stone-mullioned window on the left. This is a seventeenth-century house of U-shaped plan, open to the south with a porch on the north towards the farmyard and one cross wing projecting the same way. The wing was later extended, as was the other cross wing towards the farmyard, with the angle to the porch subsequently infilled. The building forms a group with the church and stables nearby. Described as "a good house" by Atkyns, the house was divided into two properties by 1740, recombined probably after 1822, but part was still used as a cottage in the early twentieth century before being subdivided again in the mid-twentieth century.