Ilton Court

Ilton Court is a detached house located on Church Road in Ilton. It dates from the 17th century, with possible earlier elements, and has been modified over time. The building is constructed of local stone near-ashlar, with coursed rubble at the north end, and features a thatched roof with plain gables on the southern crosswing and a conical hip at the north end. There are stone and rendered brick chimney stacks.

The house has a 'T'-plan layout, with a rounded north end and two storeys. The east elevation consists of five bays. The first bay is the 17th-century crosswing, which has ovolo-moulded mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, featuring 2-light windows with labels at both levels on the gable, and a 4-light window on the north return, with the upper window set in a gabled dormer made of timber to match. Bays two and three have 20th-century leaded casements with four lights, with the upper windows integrated into the roof. Bay four contains an 18th-century 3-light leaded casement above and a small triangular-arched window below. Bay five and the returns around the north curve have 20th-century casement windows, some of which are small-pane. All casements have timber lintels above them. Between bays two and three, there is a cambered-arched recess with a deep lintel of minimal bearing, featuring a boarded door in a triangular-headed frame made of heavy members.

The south elevation of the crosswing has three bays, with 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows in the lower bay three and a mezzanine bay two, above which are early 4-light leaded casements. There is a modern leaded window in upper bay one, and below it is a projecting stone porch with a gabled stone slate roof and a cambered-arched outer door with sidelights. The interior has not been seen, but fragments of panelling and cornices from around 1600 may still exist. The house may have been built by the Wyndham family and was the residence of John Scott, overseer of the Poor for Ilton, in 1700.