Nottage Court

Nottage Court is a large house dating from the 16th century, with substantial alterations and additions in the 19th century. The house is built of stone, completely rendered, with ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof, some stone ridge tiles, double pyramidal gable and ridge finials, and ridge chimneys to the rear. The plan originally comprised a roughly T-shaped main block, to which a rear range was added in the 19th century, creating an E-shaped layout.

The main frontage has five bays, with three projecting three-storey bays with gabled roofs and moulded coping. The bay to the left is the deepest and contains the entrance, which features a Tudor-arched doorway with moulded jambs, a square-headed hoodmould with plain returned ends, blank shields in the spandrels, and a vertically panelled door with studs. The attic windows have square-headed hoodmoulds to paired lights; first and ground floor windows have a continuous hoodmould to triple and quadruple lights respectively, all now with plain glass but formerly with leaded quarries. The windows have sunk chamfered jambs and mullions, and no sills. Between the bays are similar two-light windows. The east gable end has similar windows, three lights to the ground floor and two lights to the first and attic floors. The west gable end, originally the stair wing, has similar two-light windows to the first and second storeys. Other windows elsewhere are similar but some may be restored or re-set. The east frontage of the rear wing is lower, with four bays, all three storeys, and some two-light windows similar to the front, although with sills. Three half dormers are also visible. A conservatory is attached to the front on the left, and a kitchen wing extends to the rear left. A rear inner courtyard is bounded by a coach house with a cambered-headed coach entrance on the left, a Tudor-arched doorway on the right, and a pitching door within a half dormer above. An outer rear courtyard contains further buildings that have been altered.

The entrance porch on the left leads to a hall, with a parlour to the right. On the first floor is a 'great chamber' over the parlour and another room divided over the hall. Internally, the windows have sunk chamfers, and the doorways are chamfered with four-centred arches and square cut stops. The fireplaces are four-centred arched with double hollow chamfers and thistle stops; those in the hall and the room above have hoodmoulds, while those in the parlour and great chamber have mantelshelves on stone scroll brackets. The beams are deeply chamfered and stopped, with moulded wallplates and timber panelling to bayed ceilings. The rear wing was refurbished to accommodate a 19th-century staircase.