Cwrt Llangattock

William and Mary period house with especially fine 5-bay symmetrical front with hipped roof and swept eaves. Two storeys and attic, with rear wing. Stuccoed under a stone tile roof, with three tall masonry stacks to rear pitch. Wide boarded eaves with dentilled moulding. The front has a wide central doorway under a shell-hood porch approached by sweeping stone steps. Six-panelled door with multi-pane overlight flanked by pairs of tall hornless 12-pane sashes. Five similar window openings to 1st floor, under flat wooden lintels with dentils. All 12-pane hornless sashes, except the 2 upper R which have been replaced by casements; it presumably originally had cross-frame windows. The attic has 3 hipped roof dormers with 4-pane windows.

The S end of the house is 2-window with 12-pane sashes to the 1st floor and cross windows to the ground floor, all under flat heads. There is a flat roofed dormer to the attic. The rear is partially cut into the bank. The rear wall to the R of the wing has a blocked opening within a timber frame at 1st floor level, possibly a former doorway. The rear wing has an external gable masonry stack. Its S side has C19 French Doors with margin glazing and a 12-pane hornless sash above. In the SE angle between the main range and wing is a small projection possibly for a staircase. To the L of the wing is a gablet with C20 windows. Partially abutting against it is a low 2 storey wing, probably C19, with slate roof and 4-pane sash to the gable end. Between this wing and the main rear wing is a 12-pane sash at 1st floor level. At the far L end is a low lean-to with stone-tiled roof. There is also a C20 single-storey lean-to against the N end, with a 12-pane hornless sash above and a flat roofed dormer to the attic.

At right angles and linked to the main house is another building now used as a kitchen. It is not clear if it was an earlier farmhouse, or built as a service wing. It is of rubble under a tiled roof with 2 masonry end stacks. Two storeys with attic (the roof having been raised). Mainly C19 casement windows, irregularly spaced, with a planked door under a flat timber lintel to the N, just L of centre. There is an aligned C20 door in the S side. Disturbances in the E gable end suggest possible former openings. The single storey link has a raised coping to the gable and a round-headed sash window with radial glazing.

No access to interior at time of inspection (August 1997). Said to have contained a large hall that occupied more than half the ground floor of the house, but which was later divided. Said also to contain massive beams, a decorated ceiling, and a drawing room panelled in chestnut. The house has wood panelled shutters.