The Court, Broadway [1]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 10 Oct 2010

This wonderful building is listed grade II* Quoted from the entry in http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-400974-the-court-broadway "Gatehouse, now house. Circa 1600, restored and extended 1898 by Guy Dawber. Limestone rubble with stone slate roof. Two storeys. Windows are rebated and chamfered with mullions. Earliest part, facing road, has two windows of two lights on the ground floor, and a similar one towards the left on the first floor partly within a gable. At the right is a 5-light window with transom within a gable. Below is a wide entrance with a moulded segmental arch within a square label, and moulded imposts. Carved below the label are three crests: a reindeer, a sheldrake and a mailed fist. Above is a carved coat of arms of Sheldon crossed with Rudding. The archway is now blocked and contains a smaller doorway, with leaded glazing within a grid of timber mullions and transoms above. Gables coped. Chimney to right has paired shafts. The south facade has a two-bay recessed centre between two gabled wings, each of one bay, the right-hand one part of the original gatehouse. In the right-hand bay of the centre is a chamfered doorway. The early part of the house once formed the gatehouse and entrance to the stables of Broadway Court, which stood in the field opposite until its demolition in 1773."

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