DescriptionLangstone Court is a complex and substantial two-and-a-half storey farmhouse dating from three periods. The central range is the earliest, probably dating from the fifteenth century, and aligned on a north to south axis. The western, two-storey range, is seventeenth century and aligned east to west while the eastern range is a lower nineteenth century addition set back on an east to west axis. Recent repair work has revealed detail of around 1600 and an eighteenth century wallpainting of floral type.
There are whitewashed rendered elevations with steeply pitched slate roofs, and four gable chimneys all of which have been rebuilt in yellow bricks, two to the central range and one each to the west and east ranges. The house has been refenestrated with a mixture of mostly modern casements and small pane sash windows, being symmetrically aligned to the front (S) W end range and the rear (N) central range. The central range to the front elevation has a large projecting stack rising to the eaves with blocked square window openings to the attic high up on the gable on the southern and northern faces. The rear elevation has a miscellany of modern windows largely of random pattern.
The building is entered on the south side via a modern gabled porch into the seventeenth century west range. The interior is generally modernised, but a good, well type, oak stair survives in this range with five landings with turned balusters, flat moulded handrail to flat topped newels, ball pendants and solid moulded strings. To the right hand side of the entrance hallway are two surviving long, square-headed 15th century lights with hollow chamfered mullions and chamfered sandstone jambs. These were formerly on the gable of the earliest hall range, now internalised by the seventeenth century range. The basement of the ninetenth century wing has a surviving cast iron range at the east end. It has an original pegged and trussed "A" frame roof.
S Fielding, RCAHMW, 2 August 2005