The Court House

ST62SW RIMPTON CP CHURCH LANE (North side)

5/112 The Court House

19.4.61

GV II

Manor House. Mostly C17 but with earlier fragments. Local stone cut and squared, random coursed, with Ham stone dressings; Bridgwater patent, triple angle, clay tiles between coped gables; 2-stone chimney stacks and one of brick. Originally an "L"-plan; main South elevation has 2-stories of 3-bays, with left hand projecting wing. Central coped gabled porch, with finial, with solid sides and cambered arch doorway; windows ovolo-mould mullioned with rectangular leaded lights and label moulds, 4-light to ground floor and 3-light above; 2-wrought iron casement stays survive. The gable of the projection has a 4-light hollow chamfered window to ground floor, above a matching 3-light with label set under a triangular relieving arch. In the East wall of the projection a plain doorway with cambered arch. To the rear an early stone chimney stack and several mullioned windows, as well as a C20 rear wing and 2-lean-to extensions. The interior is said to contain jointed cruck roof trusses, some C17 fireplaces, chamfered beams and a moulded stud and panel cross-passage screen. Owned by Bishopric of Winchester from the mid C11 into the C19, and used as a resting place for the Bishop's officers attending Assize Courts at Ilchester and in Taunton. (SSAVBRG Report, unpublished SRO, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6100921891