Court St Lawrence

Country house, whitewashed roughcast with slate roofs and corniced whitewashed stacks. Two-storey, L-plan original range with low-pitched hipped roofs with broad eaves and square brackets. Windows are sashes with cambered heads. Three-window W front with canted S end and 2-window hipped SE rear wing. Twelve-pane ground floor windows, 6-pane above, door in left bay. Flat roofed verandah on 4 C20 turned oak posts replacing rustic posts. Flagged veranda floor with Pennant stone blocks under posts. Canted W end has 6-pane sash over 12-pane sash. Rear wing has S side 2 similar 6-pane sashes over 4-12-4-pane tripartite sashes, while N end also has 2 6-pane sashes over tripartite sash to left of centre, door to right. Extension to the N end of W front of 1870s is a 2-storey, 2-bay stuccoed gabled range with corniced end stacks, bracket eaves, heavy string course and 12-pane sash windows with stucco architraves. Rear wing parallel to earlier C19 rear wing with louvred lantern on E end and 12-pane sash each floor on s side which projects beyond rear of earlier rear wing. In angle between these rear ranges a new entrance was created in line with the original front door, but approached by an oak diagonal porch with triangular bay over with tripartite window with top lights on each face. Running N is former barn range the left end converted to service use. Whitewashed roughcast with steep slate roof, one ridge stack and large projecting entry to right of centre with steep bargeboarded gable, mock half-timber and clock. Diagonally-braced barn doors within. Bell under apex, vane above. To left of porch, 2 eaves-breaking C19 dormers, one slightly higher than the second. Ground floor left lean-to porch with decorative half-timbered small gable, then triple casement under first dormer, and another stepped up under second dormer. Rainwater head with date 1875. To right of porch, one earlier C19 casement pair. On SE corner projects a small gabled dovecote with ashlar trefoil opening, small slot and small carved corbel head on S front, possibly reused medieval. Rear has brick dove-openings in gable. Rubble end to barn range with loft opening over door.

Early C19 house has entrance hall to left and drawing room to right, with dining room behind. entrance hall gives onto stair hall with open well staircase. Early C19 stick balusters and ramped rail. In the 1870s alteration the stair hall was given a new ceiling of painted roll-moulded beams with panels between, the panels boarded. Main beam supported on thick pilasters with roll-moulded angles and freely carved capitals, with carved corbels under other beams. On both ground and first floor the original end wall of the house is pierced by an ornate 2-light opening with fat column between piers all with similar carved capitals. Capitals exhibit highly naturalistic carvings of botanical items. Drawing-room has neo-classical white marble fireplace with anthemion decorations.