Barons Court PH

Former Manor House, a late medieval hall house, now a public house. Built mostly of coursed rubble; porch and left frontage are rendered. Welsh slate roofs, narrow stone ridge and end stacks with tall decorative terracotta pots. Windows are mullioned with four-centred lights and square hoodmoulds, many of C19 and painted. 2 storeys. Main range has two-storeyed gabled porch off centre with 2-light first floor window, mid C16 Herbert coat of arms below and 4-centred arched ground floor doorway. Hall to right (E) has a 4-light window and low cambered-arched now unused doorway. E gable end wall has a wide buttress with offset and bands with similar first floor window. To left (W) of porch and with a separate roof from hall is the former service range with two 2-light windows to first floor, also on gable end, and deep ground floor single storey C19 bay with castellated parapet and 4-light window. Main W elevation is the stepped back C19 gabled wing with three 2-light windows to first floor; gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway flanked by segmental-arched multipane windows; small lean-to to right. To rear are the two 2-storeyed gables of the parallel cross wings, the rear service wing and C19 hall wing; attached to left (E) is a large single storey wing with embattled parapet and multiple-light windows including a canted bay, an extension of the early hall, which itself has a projecting shallow gabled wing with stack for the lateral fireplace and an adjacent 4-light window in an embattled rectangular bay.

Porch leads to inner pointed-arched chamfered and stopped doorway of former cross passage. To right a remodelled doorway with further arched opening beside leads into the lofty hall which has an arch-braced roof of 6 trusses, the W three of which are reputedly original, with 4 rows of ribbed purlins and C19 crested wallplate. Walls are faced with C19 polychrome brickwork, patterns in header shapes; large painted stone fireplace with chamfered flat arch, stone mantel-shelf and coloured tiles; to E is a large moulded stone arch of 3 orders reputedly made in C19 of medieval stonework from St John's church Cardiff, leading to a window recess; hall windows have wide embrasures. In the former service wing, the rear wall has the remains of a spiral stone staircase and 2 chamfered 4-centred arched doorways. To rear is a C19 cambered-arched fireplace with voussoirs and iron lintel and to side a further chamfered pointed-arched doorway. Now used as a public house and restaurant with some inserted 2-storey partitions; some areas of old fabric unrendered.