Castle Cottage

Castle Cottage is a cottage, originally a row of three cottages and possibly a former farm building, dating from the 17th or 18th century. The structure is built of knapped flint with brick dressings, which was partly lime washed in the past. The roof is now covered with 20th-century machine-made tiles, but it was formerly thatched and has a half-hipped outline. The cottage has two storeys, with a single-storey lean-to outshut along the south side, added later and featuring a slate roof and rendered walls. A 20th-century extension is located at the western end of the north front. The outshut has been converted into a central entrance lobby, with a bathroom to one side, flanked by a studio and storage. Original winder staircases remain from the three separate cottages, each leading to individual first-floor spaces.

The north face, formerly the main entrance front for the row of cottages, features a blocked door centrally to the left and a further door to the far right, which now serves the 20th-century extension. The ground-floor windows are 4x4 pane sashes, and the three first-floor windows have 4x3 panes. The window openings have brick surrounds, and brick quoins define the corners of the building. Remnants of lime wash or render remain on portions of this front. A shallow-pitched roof and a door on its eastern flank are visible on the ground-floor extension to the far right.

The eastern end displays a small casement window at ground floor level and a blocked opening at attic level, potentially a former taking-in door for an agricultural building.

The south face, now the main entrance front, has a long, continuous lean-to outshut. The eastern end of the outshut reveals exposed knapped flint with brick quoins, mirroring the main house, and includes an arched brace on the half-gable. The southern face is rendered and has a slate roof. A narrow gap between the outshut roof and the main building’s eaves contains three 2-light casement windows on the first floor.

Inside, the entrance lobby showcases exposed flint walling and a lean-to roof truss with an arched brace, also visible in the ground-floor bathroom. Each ground-floor room has a central, cross-axial square-edged beam. Fire surrounds are replacements made of brick. First-floor bedrooms have widely-spaced joists. The original winder staircases were previously enclosed, and the central one retains its ground-floor plank door with strap hinges. Glazed 20th-century doors have been introduced between the ground-floor rooms.

A section of flint walling, previously part of a farm building, now forms a boundary wall to the property and extends to the south and east.