The Court House

The Court House is probably a late medieval cruck-framed hall house, originally with half-timbering. It was raised to a storey and refaced in stone in 1628. In the 19th century, decorative timberwork was applied to the front and painted. More recently, the building has been altered and converted into two properties. An 1890 view shows the building as it stands now, but without the right-hand gable. A central gable bears the date '1628 IOWEN.PUGH IOUXOR', and the building was once the Mayor's house.

The building is single-storey with an attic and has a steep, undulating slate roof with stone gable parapets and chimney stacks, featuring weathercoursing at the ends and opposite the original main door, which now serves No. 106. There are three gables, the right-hand one being modern, with three- and four-light mullion and transom windows. Cross-frame windows are positioned below each gable, and all have diamond-leaded glazing. The roof extends to the extreme left, covering a lean-to with a small window, and a square bay is situated below the central gable. Paired boarded doors are located to the right of the centre. The applied timber decoration is close studded and herringbone, applied in a non-historical style. A lean-to is present at the left gable end, which has been modernised at the rear and rendered in whitewash.

The building originally followed a lobby entry plan form. No. 106 features simple stop-chamfered spine beams and deep window recesses. It now contains two ground-floor rooms, each with a fireplace. The fireplace on the right is blocked, but the one on the left retains fine 17th-century plasterwork over the mantel, depicting a basket of fruit surrounded by a strapwork-like band – which does not symmetrically fit the space. The main beam in this room is deeply chamfered. Upstairs, two cruck trusses are visible, with twin overlapping purlins, pegged and lapped joints.