The Court House

The Court House is a two-storey and attic building from the 16th century, featuring a main five-bay range that is rectangular in shape. The entrance bay has a flush-set gable and an offset gabled solid porch. At the southeast end, there is a second two-storey and attic range, though the ground floor is mostly obscured by modern extensions. The exterior has plastered and colour-washed masonry walls, with exposed stone dressings on the gable cappings, which include kneelers and a plinth course that connects to the chamfered surround of the porch entrance. There is a pointed hood-moulding above a secondary door on the left side.

The building has slate roofs, with a pair of pitched roof dormers located over the central bays and twin rubble stacks set diagonally above a rectangular chimney at the junction of the roof pitches to the right of the entrance gable. The attic windows feature single-light sashes, while the first-floor windows have double-hung 12-pane sashes. The ground floor includes a canted bay with small-pane sashes at its center and a narrow small-pane sash window to the right. A wide single-light gable faces the road, with small-pane sash windows and a modern door opening on the ground floor. The rear of the building has a full-height cross-gable at the far southeast end, along with various lower extensions, which show evidence of a possible lateral chimney in the angle of the original block and a narrow hipped range running parallel to the rear.

The interior was not inspected, but the RCAHMW Inventory notes that within the original 16th-century block, there may have been a cross-passage to the south, beneath an open roof of four bays. Three plain collar-beam roof trusses remain, although they are mostly boxed in. These trusses feature cambered collars that are morticed into the principal rafters, which support three purlins on each side and a ridge beam. The recording by the RCAHMW suggests that much of this timberwork may have been reused. Evidence indicates that the entire building was floored to create accommodation on two main levels with attics above. Aside from the thick outer walls and the four-bay roof, no visible features from the early building remain. At the same time the roof was constructed, a gabled front was added to the northern part of the house.