Court Place Farmhouse

House. Dating from around the late 15th century, the farmhouse has undergone remodeling and extensions in the 17th, 18th, and late 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone, potentially with some cob, and has a slate roof with gabled ends. The chimneys are stone with reconstructed brick shafts.

The original plan was a three-room layout with a through-passage, originally open to the roof’s full length. The southwest section, containing the hall and a lower service area, was originally heated by open hearth fires, separated by a closed truss in the passage. A low screen likely divided the hall and the inner room originally, and the hall/inner room truss was filled in during the 16th century, although the inner room remained open to the roof for a time. The roof consists of five bays, with a truncated sixth bay at the southwest end. Floors and stacks were inserted in the 17th century; the service rooms and the inner room had gable-end stacks, while the hall had an axial stack at its high end. A service wing and outbuilding were added to the rear (northwest) of the southwest end during the 17th century. The service rooms and stair tower behind the hall may be 18th-century additions, or part of the late 19th-century remodelling, which also saw the addition of gables, porches, and new windows.

The southeast front displays an asymmetrical four-bay, three-window arrangement, featuring two larger gables to the left and a smaller gable on the right. It has 20th-century casement windows. The left two ground floor rooms have late 19th-century canted bay windows, with a gabled porch between them. A smaller late 19th-century porch is on the right. The rear (northwest) elevation incorporates projecting additions with three gables; an outshut is to the right, located between the stair tower and the service wing and outbuilding, creating an overall L-shaped plan.

The lower southwest room and the former hall have plastered over unchamfered cross-beams and 20th-century fireplaces. The hall/passage partition has a chamfered beam without stops. The inner room features three deeply chamfered axial beams with run-out stops and a 20th-century brick chimneypiece. There are several 18th-century two-panel doors; all other joinery is Victorian, including a staircase with turned balusters and newels. The roof structure is smoke-blackened throughout, with six bays plus a truncated bay at the southwest end, side-pegged jointed-cruck trusses, cambered collars, three tiers of tenoned purlins, and a diagonally trenched ridgepiece. Curved wind-braces are present over the hall and inner room. The truss at the low end of the hall is closed and smoke-blackened on both sides; the hall/inner room truss has later wattle-and-daub infilling smoke-blackened on both sides; and the truss at the high right end appears to be only lightly blackened. The service/outbuilding wing behind the southwest end has chamfered cross-beams with run-out and cyma stops, and a roof with a jointed cruk truss and part of a second jointed cruk.