Outbuilding About 30 Yards East Of Marstow Court

This building, located about 30 yards east of Marstow Court, is likely a former house that has been converted into a farm building. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. Constructed from sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, it features a gable-ended roof covered in Welsh slate.

The building has a rectangular plan and originally consisted of one large room that was later divided into two nearly equal-sized rooms. It is a tall two-storey structure. The north elevation includes a blocked 15th-century window at the center of the ground floor, which has two trefoil-headed lights with cusped spandrels. Above this, there is a two-light wooden-frame window with a chamfered mullion and straight-cut stops, although only one of the octagonal mullions remains. To the right on the ground floor, there is a small blocked chamfered window, and on the far left, a blocked chamfered four-centred arch doorway. The east gable end features various chamfered stone windows, including two two-light windows with stone mullions, although the right window on the first floor is blocked. The south elevation has a large later raking buttress at the right corner and a later stone external staircase at the left corner leading to a first-floor doorway, with a blocked window to the left. The west gable end has an offset at the first-floor level and a later doorway on the left with a plank door secured by strap hinges.

Inside, the ground floor has a later stone rubble partition and chamfered ceiling beams. The first floor is open to a 2 ½ bay 17th-century queen-strut roof, featuring lightly chamfered principals, tie-beams, collars, trenched side purlins, and a diagonally-set ridgepiece. The north window on the first floor has inward-opening ledged shutters with strap hinges.

Historically, this building is reputed to be associated with the manor of the Knights Hospitallers, who held lands in Marstow.