Court St Lawrence

This is an early 19th century country house, originally an L-shaped building with a low-pitched hipped roof and broad eaves, later extended. The exterior is whitewashed roughcast with slate roofs and prominent whitewashed stacks. The western front has three windows, with a canted southern end, while a two-window hipped rear wing extends to the southeast. The ground-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, while those above are 6-pane. A flat-roofed veranda, supported by four 20th-century turned oak posts replacing earlier rustic posts, runs along the front; the veranda floor is flagged with Pennant stone blocks. The canted western end has a 6-pane sash above a 12-pane sash. The rear wing’s southern side features two 6-pane sashes over tripartite sashes (4-12-4 panes), and the northern side has two 6-pane sashes over a tripartite sash to the left of centre, with a door to the right.

An extension dated to the 1870s projects from the north end of the western front, comprising a two-story, two-bay stuccoed gabled range with corniced end stacks, bracketed eaves, a heavy string course, and 12-pane sash windows with stucco architraves. A further rear wing, parallel to an earlier 19th-century wing, includes a louvred lantern on its eastern end and 12-pane sash windows on each floor that project beyond the earlier rear wing. A new entrance was created in the angle between the rear wings, aligned with the original front door, and is approached by an oak diagonal porch with a triangular bay above, featuring a tripartite window with top lights on each face.

A former barn range runs north, with the left end converted to service use. It has whitewashed roughcast, a steep slate roof, a ridge stack, and a large projecting entry with a steep bargeboarded gable, mock half-timbering, and a clock. The barn doors are diagonally braced. A bell sits under the apex, topped by a vane. To the left of the porch are two 19th-century dormers, one slightly higher than the other. A ground-floor lean-to porch with decorative half-timbering is to the left, followed by a triple casement window under the first dormer and another stepped up under the second. A rainwater head is dated 1875. To the right of the porch is an earlier 19th-century casement pair. A small gabled dovecote projects from the southeast corner, featuring an ashlar trefoil opening, a small slot, and a small carved corbel head on the south front, possibly incorporating reused medieval elements; the rear has brick dove-openings in the gable. The barn range has a rubble end with a loft opening over the door.

The original house incorporates an entrance hall to the left and a drawing room to the right, with a dining room behind. The entrance hall leads to a stair hall with an open-well staircase featuring early 19th-century stick balusters and a ramped rail. During the 1870s alterations, the stair hall received a new ceiling of painted roll-moulded beams with boarded panels, supported by thick pilasters with roll-moulded angles and freely carved capitals, with carved corbels under other beams. Ornate two-light openings with fat columns and similar carved capitals pierce both the ground and first floor end walls, displaying highly naturalistic carvings of botanical items. The drawing room contains a neo-classical white marble fireplace with anthemion decorations.