Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)

Castle House, also known as The Spinning Wheel, is a house that dates back to the early 16th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a continuous jetty and consists of four bays facing south, with an axial stack located one bay from the right end and an 18th or 19th-century stack at the left end.

At the rear of the right bay, there is an 18th-century extension with a gambrel roof, along with two 20th-century extensions that have flat roofs. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range of mid-19th-century sashes with six lights. A 20th-century door and shop window are found in the right bay. Below the jetty, there are four 19th-century scrolled brackets.

Chapel Cottage borders the right side and the right front corner of Castle House, which includes one original plain bracket beneath the jetty. There is a wrought iron lantern bracket with scrolls that has been adapted to support a shop sign. The chimney features recessed panels, and the structure has jowled posts, with half-height jowls on the rear posts that are chamfered with step stops. The binding beams are also chamfered with step stops, while the axial beams are unstopped.

The close studding is complemented by curved braces that are trenched to the outside, which are exposed in Chapel Cottage. A blocked doorway with a four-centred head is located between the right bay and the next. Inside, there is a large wood-burning hearth facing left, which has been reduced for a 20th-century grate, and another hearth facing right with a depressed arch made of plastered brick. Above this hearth, there is a plaster guilloche design, with chamfered jambs featuring a five-leafed plant in plaster, dating to around 1600.

On the first floor, there is a blocked unglazed window at the right end, along with diamond mortices for unglazed windows at the front. The interior includes chamfered tiebeams with step stops, arched braces, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing.