Piers Court

The present house was built by John Wallington at the very end of the 18th century. It incorporates elements of an older building. Evelyn Waugh lived at Piers Court from 1937 to 1956, and wrote many of his best known works there, including Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen.}} In 1955 Waugh was enraged when two journalists from the Daily Express, Nancy Spain and Noel Buxton arrived at Piers Court, having previously been declined an interview. An acrimonious and public correspondence saw Waugh successfully sue Spain for libel. But his enjoyment of the house was marred and he sold it the following year. Waugh's library at Piers Court was sold by a subsequent…

The house is built of local stone with the main block consisting of seven bays and two storeys. Historic England's listing record notes that this central block, designed in a Palladian style and dating from the late 18th century, abuts a lower wing with earlier origins, probably of the 16th century. The pediment below the roof is surmounted by an "elaborate" coat of arms. David Verey and Alan Brooks, in their 2000 revised edition of Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds, in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, describe Piers Court as a "dignified and elegant house." It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1952.