Winston Court and attached Former Stable & Cartshed

Winston Court and attached Former Stable & Cartshed

A large seventeenth-century farmhouse with colour-washed rubble stone walls, slate roof, and a brick centre stack. The two-storey south front is irregular, comprising the main farmhouse to the right and a seventeenth-century addition to the left, forming a long façade. The main house features an off-centre brick stack and stone end-stack. The first floor has a seventeenth-century 4-light sunk chamfer wooden mullion window to the left, and to the right a broad window opening with a centre brick mullion separating 2+2 pane casements on each side. The ground floor has a late seventeenth-century 4-light transom window to the left. Projecting at right angles to the right is a single-storey nineteenth-century gabled addition, with a gable entrance doorway featuring a twentieth-century plywood door and a nineteenth-century horned sash with marginal panes.

The seventeenth-century addition to the left of the main house sits slightly set back, with a lower, steeper pitched roof and a stone end-stack with moulded cap. Its first floor contains two seventeenth-century 3-light sunk chamfer mullion windows with thin stone sills. The ground floor has a nineteenth-century 6-pane horned sash and, to the right, a twentieth-century gabled stone entrance porch with an inner boarded door. The west gable has a centre stack with offsets. To the right of this stack on the first floor is a 3-light chamfered mullion, and on the ground floor a blocked window opening. To the left of the stack the upper wall is jettied out on an oak bressumer.

The rear elevation is broken by a large centre raking buttress separating the main farmhouse (which has a single-storey lean-to to the left) from the seventeenth-century addition to the right. The addition's first floor features a 1+1+1 pane casement to the right and a 3-light sunk chamfer mullion to the left. The ground floor has a 2-light diamond mullion beaded at the angles to the left and a blocked former 5-light sunk chamfer mullion to the right. The main farmhouse's first floor has, from left to right, a blocked window opening, a 1+1 pane casement (which springs below the ridge of the lean-to), and a 4+4 pane casement. The ground floor has a 5-light sunk chamfer mullion. The lean-to has a corrugated metal roof and a blind rear wall. Its south gable is buttressed and features a 3-light mullion to the upper gable and a 3-light sunk chamfer mullion to the first floor.

Attached to the south gable is a long single-storey farm range comprising a stable and cartshed, constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and tile ridge. The south front, which faces the farmyard, has from left to right: boarded double doors, a square window opening, a boarded door, a window with vertical iron stanchions and inside shutters, a boarded door, another barred window, and the front of a former shelter shed enclosed by vertical boards with boarded double doors in the centre.

The interior follows a three-unit plan. Entry is into a lobby with a nineteenth-century stair to the rear and a post and panel partition to the left. The parlour to the right has a transverse ceiling beam with enriched, hollow and two quarter round moulding. Each side of this beam is a very fine seventeenth-century plaster ceiling with a moulded cornice and an ornate centre fret of ribbed geometrical panels enriched by Tudor roses, shallow domed pendants and fleur de lys. A twentieth-century fireplace flanks each side with seventeenth-century 8-panel doors. A doorway to the right has an ornate shaped door-head with scrolled sides and a stepped head.

The dairy retains its original stone benches and salting slab. On the first floor, the bedroom to the left of the stair has chamfered ceiling beams with straight cut stops and a fireplace stair with a boarded door (access to the attic was not possible at the time of resurvey). The first floor rooms to the right of the stair once formed a single bedchamber and feature a corniced ceiling with a chamfered ceiling beam with straight cut stop. The room beyond has chamfered beams with hollow and fillet (Wern-hir) stops.