Court Henry

Court Henry is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house of two storeys with an attic, built to a double-pile plan with a symmetrical five-bay west front flanked by end bays that project forward beneath lower hipped roofs. The main elevations are rendered in roughcast and painted white, with slate roofs featuring swept bracketed eaves and brick chimney stacks.

The central doorway is approached through a plain Doric portico added in the 1830s and fitted with a panelled door incorporating arched panels, dating to the late 19th century. Windows throughout are 12-pane horned sashes, renewed in original openings. The right-hand end bay projects beyond the gable end of the main range, while the slightly narrower left end bay aligns flush with the main gable. A margin-lit glazed door in the right gable end, positioned lower left, provides access to a former 19th-century conservatory. The front pile's attic contains a nine-pane sash window on the left side.

A late medieval two-storey projecting former chapel wing stands between the front and rear right gables. This wing also has a margin-lit door opening to the former conservatory. Its gable end displays a wooden cross window with pointed glazing bars in the lower storey, and a large two-light upper storey window with Y-tracery and intersecting glazing bars. The rear wall of the wing features a segmental-headed doorway offset to the right with a recessed studded door.

The rear elevation of the house comprises four windows. The upper storey has three 12-pane hornless sashes and a smaller similar window further right. The lower storey contains a late 19th-century two-pane sash window lighting the dining room to the left, followed by a half-lit door, a 12-pane hornless sash window, and parallel single-storey projections to the right.

The left gable end shows 12-pane horned sashes and a nine-pane attic window offset right of centre in the front pile. The rear pile has similar 12-pane sashes in each storey on right and left, a smaller 12-pane window right of centre in the lower storey, and a nine-pane attic window offset left of centre.

The stone-tiled entrance hall reflects 1830s remodelling. It features an open-well stair leading to a cantilevered balcony with moulded tread ends, turned balusters and clustered shafts to the newels, topped by a large ornate ceiling rose. The principal rooms flank the hall, though the house is not symmetrically planned: the long drawing room to the left is one bay larger than the parlour to the right and contains classical detailing. A pointed doorway from the entrance hall leads to the rear pile, where a left-side corridor connects to service rooms including an 1830s kitchen with an elliptical arched fireplace (now blocked), a matching arched recess to its left, and a full-height built-in dresser.

The upper storey contains a long corridor in the rear pile. This corridor incorporates, in the rear wall of the front pile (and thus the original house), a cusped pointed doorway of late medieval date, alongside a blocked cusped window also of late medieval origin. The chapel room at the corridor's end has a pointed doorway with continuous chamfer of 19th-century form, fitted with a half-lit door bearing intersecting Gothic glazing bars. The chapel itself has a plastered wagon roof with the feet of earlier arched braces still visible. It contains a cusped piscina and a flat ogee-headed squint, both salvaged from another site. The room below the chapel displays stone corbels at ceiling level.