Gatehouse At The Castle Inn

The Gatehouse at The Castle Inn, formerly known as Edge Hill Tower, was designed by Sanderson Miller for himself around 1746-1747. It is built from ironstone ashlar in a castellated Gothick style and consists of two storeys with three-storey turrets. The front of the gatehouse is partly below road level and is obscured by a later causeway across a blocked archway, featuring three bays.

On the left, there is a square turret with machicolations and moulded battlements, while small lancet windows are blind on the front. The lower truncated turret on the right, which likely resembled the left turret originally, has a single-pitch roof sloping to the right. An arched gateway in the center contains a plank door with shields above it.

At the rear, there is a two-storey recessed archway, and large stone brackets on either side once supported a bridge to The Castle Inn. The central arched doorway leads to a vaulted chamber. The turrets have chamfered plinths and feature blind cross slit windows and lancets above. The inner faces of the turrets have arched doorways on the ground and second floors. This gatehouse was part of the Castle, also referred to as Edgehill Tower.