The Old Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. House.
The Old Court
- WRENN ID
- seventh-hinge-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Court, Church Hill, Pitney
- OS grid reference
- ST 445 284
- Coordinates
- 51.05309, -2.792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Court is a detached house that dates back to at least the 16th century. It is built from local lias stone that is cut and squared, possibly serving as a lacing to cob, and features a thatched roof with a half-hip on the east side and a plain gable on the west. The house has two storeys and four bays, with the east bay being a later addition, likely from 1939.
The windows are mostly small-pane, with two-light designs, although the upper bays one and three have three-light windows. In these same bays, there are paired two-light windows below. The lower bay two has a boarded door set in a heavy frame beneath a timber lintel. There is an open timber and thatched porch on the east gable, along with a lean-to structure against the west gable.
While the interior has not been seen, it is reported to have a cross-passage plan and several beams that indicate the original layout, along with a jointed cruck truss roof. Historical records suggest that this site may be where Pitney Lorty Manor, known as Courteplace in the 15th century, once stood.
Local climate
The Old Court receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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