The Court House
THE COURT HOUSE, COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193662
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HOUSE, COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193662
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COURT HOUSE, COURT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HOUSE, COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bratton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91061 52616
Details
BRATTON COURT LANE ST 9152 (west side) 11/18 The Court House 11.9.68 GV II* Detached house. C15, altered early C17, mid C17. Studded timber- framing with some brick nogging, partly on stone plinth, thatched roof with half-hip to left, brick stacks. Hall house with cross wing. Two-storey, 4-window. Fine gabled timber-framed porch on stone plinth with diagonal buttresses, turned balusters to sides, carved brackets, ledged door with 1656 and name WHITAKER carved in lintel, 3-light cyma-mullioned casement and fire window to left, 2- light casement to raking dormer, gabled bay to right has 3-light casements to both floors, 3-light casements to right and cross wing to right has double planked door to stone basement, 3-light casement to ground and jettied first floor, half-glazed door to left return. Right return has square-panelled framing, 2-light casement to ground floor and two 2-light to first floor, lateral brick stack. Left return rebuilt in rubble stone. Rear has single storey brick wing to right, central gable of main range has 3-light casement to attic, C20 glazed door in porch and 3-light casement to ground floor, timber-framed cross wing to left. Interior: former kitchen at south end has deep chamfered beam, large open fireplace with chamfered lintel and bread oven. Central hall has Tudor arched wooden fireplace surround with cornice, chamfered beam on post with foliage carving and date 1626 JWD; the initials of John and Dionyse Whitaker, married 1618. Parlour cross wing of c1600 has chamfered doorcases. First floor has fireplace over hall with lintel and cornice with arabesque carving. One full cruck with cambered collar, partly cut by C17 doorway in line with hall stack. Began as a through passage open hall house during late C15, parlour wing added, floors and stacks inserted during early C17. Fine example of timber-framed house in this area, occupied by the Whitaker family. Manor courts were held here. (Unpublished records of Wiltshire Buildings Record)
Listing NGR: ST9106152616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313655
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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