Court Farmhouse

Court Farmhouse is an episcopal manor house, now a farmhouse, with origins dating back to the 13th century. It has significant work from the 16th and 17th centuries, with substantial alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exterior is roughcast with a triple Roman tile roof, crested ridge, and coped verges. There are three brick stacks, two on ashlar and rubble bases, and one with an exposed chimney breast. The building's layout is an altered L-shape with a cross passage. The main wing has two storeys and three bays. The first floor has three-light casement windows, while the ground floor has two three-light stone mullioned windows. Each light of the ground-floor windows has a two-centred head and incised spandrels; the window to the right has an iron stanchion and saddle bars, and the window to the left features a casement to each light, with some early glass remaining. A central door opening is accessed by a six-panelled door with a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars, set within an ashlar porch with a semi-circular outer door opening. A buttress remains to the left of the frontage. A narrower, three-storey wing projects to the right, with one window on each floor of its inner face, a first-floor three-light stone mullioned window with iron casements and leaded lights, and a label. Similar windows are on the ground floor, except that the mullions have been cut away and replaced with a three-light casement. A small leaded window is on the second floor. A two-stage buttress is on the right. The rear of the building has a blocked four-centred arch door opening and the remains of a stair turret, which is obscured by a 19th-century lean-to. Inside, a notable feature is a two-centred archway leading to a former chapel dating back to around 1230, with a moulded head of three rolls and remains of one capital. Further remains of a similar, plainer doorway are present. There are moulded 16th-century ceiling beams, and some 18th-century fittings.