Court House Including Garden Railings To South

The Court House, which includes garden railings to the south, is a house traditionally believed to have been a manorial court house. It dates from the late 17th century, although the original structure is older. The building features granite ashlar walls that have been raised with granite stone rubble and cob, with plaster applied only to the front. It has granite stacks with plastered chimney shafts, and a roof that is now covered with corrugated iron, though it was originally thatch.

The house has a symmetrical two-room plan with end stacks and a central staircase, facing south-south-east. The eastern room served as the kitchen, while the western room was the parlour. The walls were raised to transform an earlier building into the current late 17th-century house, but details of the earlier structure could not be determined during the survey. There are woodsheds at either end of the front.

The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with late 19th-century four-light casements that include glazing bars. A contemporary door is located in the central doorway, which has granite walls and a monopitch slate roof. The roof itself is gable-ended, and the small woodsheds on either side also have monopitch roofs.

Inside, the house is largely intact, although most of the joinery details have been replaced. The original staircase is a straight flight leading to the first floor, then winding up to the attics in the roof space. The fireplaces are made of granite with chamfered lintels, and the crossbeams have plain soffit chamfers. The roof structure consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.

To the left of the porch, there is a narrow garden strip protected by late 19th-century cast iron spear-headed railings with granite piers. The Court House is part of a group of attractive listed buildings in the hamlet of Great Weeke.