Description

ST 76 NW CHARLCOMBE LANGRIDGE LANE, LANGRIDGE (north
side)
4/17

1.2.56 Court Farmhouse

G.V. II*

Court or manor house, now a farmhouse. C14 and C17; altered and extended to
east late C17 - early C18. Coursed squared rubble and stone slate roof to east
part and square rubble and ashlar with double Roman and pantiled roofs to
mediaeval parts to the west. The east (or right): part is 3 storeys and 3 bays
with 2- and 3-light casement windows in ogee moulded mullions and surrounds and
under dripmoulds; central plank door in raised surround with keystone and under
a C20 hood. To the left is the mediaeval cross-wing with a tower at the south-
west corner. The cross-wing has a battered plinth; the east return wall has a
single-light cusped window. The south elevation has a 2-light casement window
in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds and a plain chamfered doorway on the
ground floor; on the first floor is a single round-headed light and a 2-light
cross window with cusped heads and in plain chamfered mullions and surrounds, all
under a square dripmould. The square tower is 3 stages and constructed of
ashlar on a plinth: small chamfered lights to upper stages and blocked 2-light
casement windows in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds on ground floor. Plain
chamfered doorway on east side and square-headed doorway, approached by a flight
of stone steps, on first floor of west side. Interior of the mediaeval cross
wing. Wide chamfered beams on ground flor; chamfered and 4-centre headed
doorway to living room. The first floor court room or chamber has a chamfered
and 4-centre headed doorway to the tower; a finely carved C17 ashlar fireplace
with fluted Ionic pilasters and fluted frieze, a carved overmantel and frieze
with roses and heraldry on a moulded cornice; and stone seats in the embrasure
of the cross-window.

Listing NGR: ST7395669544

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531560

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings