Barons Court PH

This is a former manor house, dating from the late medieval period and now operating as a public house. The building is largely constructed of coursed rubble stone, with the porch and left-hand frontage rendered. It has Welsh slate roofs, narrow stone ridge tiles, and end stacks topped with tall decorative terracotta pots. The windows are mullioned, featuring four-centred lights and square hoodmolds, with many dating to the 19th century and now painted. The main range is two-storeyed with a gabled porch positioned centrally, featuring a two-light first-floor window, a mid-16th century Herbert coat of arms below, and a four-centred arched ground-floor doorway. To the right (east) of the porch is a hall, distinguished by a four-light window and a low, cambered-arched doorway which is now unused. The east gable end wall has a wide buttress with offset bands, mirroring the first-floor window. To the left (west) of the porch, and with a separate roof from the hall, is the former service range, displaying two two-light windows to the first floor and a gable end. There’s also a deep, single-storey 19th-century bay with a castellated parapet and a four-light window. The main west elevation features a stepped-back, 19th-century gabled wing with three two-light windows to the first floor; a gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, flanked by segmental-arched multipane windows; and a small lean-to addition to the right. The rear of the building displays the two two-storeyed gables of the parallel cross wings, the rear service wing and a 19th-century hall wing. Attached to the left (east) is a large, single-storey wing with an embattled parapet and multiple-light windows, including a canted bay; this extends the early hall. The early hall also has a projecting, shallow gabled wing with a stack for a lateral fireplace and an adjacent four-light window within an embattled rectangular bay.

The porch leads to an inner, pointed-arched, chamfered, and stopped doorway of the former cross passage. To the right, a remodelled doorway with a further arched opening leads into the lofty hall. This hall features an arch-braced roof of six trusses, with the western three reputedly original. It has four rows of ribbed purlins and a 19th-century crested wallplate. The walls are faced with 19th-century polychrome brickwork, arranged in header shapes. A large, painted stone fireplace with a chamfered flat arch, a stone mantel-shelf, and coloured tiles is present. To the east, a large, moulded stone arch of three orders, reputedly made in the 19th century from medieval stonework from St John's Church, Cardiff, leads to a window recess, and the hall windows have wide embrasures. Within the former service wing, the rear wall shows the remains of a spiral stone staircase and two chamfered, four-centred arched doorways. To the rear is a 19th-century cambered-arched fireplace with voussoirs and an iron lintel, and to the side, a further chamfered, pointed-arched doorway. The building is now used as a public house and restaurant, with some inserted two-storey partitions, and some areas of original fabric remain unrendered.