Seymours Court Farmhouse

Seymours Court Farmhouse is a building dating from the 15th century, with alterations and additions made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is constructed of rubble with a stone tile roof, coped verges, and rubble stacks, one of which projects to the right. The house follows a cross passage plan. It is two storeys high and has a 2:2 bay arrangement. The front features four-light stone king-mullioned windows with ogee moulding, those on the ground floor with relieving arches, casements with leaded lights; the left two windows have stopped labels, and the right two sit under a string course. A central, two-stage, cross-gabled porch from the 15th century has diagonal buttresses; the first floor has a two-light moulded stone mullioned window with a cusped head to each light, a dripmould with diamond terminals, and casements with leaded lights. A broad door opening has a moulded four-centred stone surround, and a dripmould, with an inner door opening in a moulded four-centred stone surround with a ribbed door. A stair turret is located to the right of the rear, with three further two-light mullioned windows, each light with a cusped head; a door opening is in a four-centred stone surround, with a further blocked door opening. Internally, a fine fireplace is located in the right-hand ground floor room, set in a four-centred stone surround flanked by plain pilasters with scroll capitals and a moulded cornice mantle. There is also a decorative early 17th century plaster ceiling and a hall with a blocked lateral stone fireplace, and an arch-braced roof from the 15th century. The house was formerly the home of Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudely, who married Queen Catherine Parr, who was executed in 1549.