Temple Cottage

Temple Cottage is a Grade II listed building, originally built as a bailiff's house in the mid-18th century in a Gothic style by the Rev. Ralph Drake Drockman. The front and left return elevations are constructed of roughly coursed galleted stone, while the rear elevation features broad bands of galleted stone and red and grey brick in Flemish bond. The building has a plain tile roof and is designed in an L-plan, with a canted turret at the re-entrant angle. It stands two storeys high with a semi-basement on a stone plinth.

The front and left return elevations include a moulded string course and a castellated parapet. The hipped roof has a left hip that returns, and there are two brick ridge stacks on the left wing and a brick gable end stack on the right. The front has a rectangular three-window arrangement featuring pointed-arched casement windows with hoodmoulds; two of these are 2-light windows with Y tracery and a single central light. The left return elevation has three similar 2-light casements on each floor.

The central door consists of four fielded panels topped with three Y-traceried lights, set within a moulded pointed-arched architrave that has a moulded hoodmould, and is accessed by four slightly curved stone steps. There is a rear return wing to the left, and the canted rear turret transitions to a square shape, which is tile-hung above the eaves and topped with a castellated wooden cupola featuring Gothic lights and a leaded conical roof with a ball finial. The interior has not been inspected. Temple Cottage was formerly associated with Beachborough, now known as Beachborough Park.