Kilve Court

Kilve Court is a country house that has been converted into an education centre. It was built between 1782 and 1785, incorporating an earlier dwelling, with alterations made in the 1920s by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis. The building is constructed of blue lias random rubble with brick dressings and was originally rendered. It features a hipped slate roof behind a parapet with a modillion cornice, and a ribbon string course that separates the ground and first floors. Brick stacks are visible on the rear elevation.

The house has a double pile layout facing south, with an earlier "L"-shaped wing on the west front. It is two storeys high with an attic and consists of five bays. The attic storey has 6-pane sash windows, a central thermal window, and other 12-pane sash windows. Above the entrance, there is a central Venetian window. All windows are framed with brick surrounds and supported by modillion brackets under the sills. The doorcase features Ionic columns that support an open pediment with a rusticated architrave, a leaded fanlight, and 20th-century half-glazed double doors.

To the right of the entrance, there is a three-bay return, with one bay to the left and a two-storey, one-to-three bay wing from the earlier dwelling. Inside, there is an Ionic pilaster screen on the internal entrance wall, with double doors and a classical motif in the fanlight above, attributed to Clough Williams-Ellis. The late 18th-century plasterwork includes motifs on a shallow saucer dome over a simple contemporary staircase. A bedroom on the west front contains a tiled fireplace surround made of 8 by 8 late 18th-century Chinese tiles in ox-blood ink, styled like Delft, depicting Bible scenes.