Fir Court

Unusual plan comprising 2 cross wings and a short central range which forms the entrance bay. Symmetrical to front and rear. Lobby entry plan, 3 window range and two full storeys. Timber-framed with tile roof, central red brick stack, and small E side stack. The timbering consists of box framing with plaster panels, except above the gable bressumers where there are decorative cross braces. The timber framing has been replaced or faced with render to the rear and in the lower storey of the front elevation. The E gable is of coursed masonry construction with a central window to each storey. On the front gable bressumer of the W cross wing is an inscription in relief which reads:

What is here by man erected: it be by God protected: John Middleton: Gent: An: Do: 1685: Aetatis. Suae 27: RTC.

There are plain barge boards surmounted by finials to front and rear. The modern, 6-panelled front door is within a modern glazed porch and the front elevation has wooden casement windows with nine panes on the lower storey and 6 panes on the upper storey. The rear has a modern porch with lean-to roof and open timber work encasing a modern 4-panelled door. The windows are modern casements in differing styles. There is a small rendered lean-to at W end with asbestos corrugated roof and planked door to front.

No access to the interior (The house was unoccupied at time of inspection). The masonry E end with its small chimney would suggest that the service area was in the E bay.