Place Farm House including Cleves Cottage

Place Farm House, including Cleves Cottage, is a former gatehouse to Bletchingley Place, now serving as a house. It dates from the 16th century but was rebuilt in the 18th century. The building features a brick plinth, with part rendered and red and brown brick above, topped by a plain tiled roof with deep eaves and end ridge stacks. It has two storeys and displays three glazing bar sash windows with cambered heads on the first floor, where the outer windows are tripartite. The ground floor has sash windows beneath diagonally placed gauged brick heads. A central six-panel door is set beneath a traceried fanlight and is flanked by a flat Doric wood columned portico that is part of a blocked former gateway. The entrance is accentuated by a five-step surround leading to a four-centred arch with brick roll moulding on the outer block.

To the right is Cleves Cottage, constructed from wealdstone with brick dressings. This two-storey structure has two casement windows on the first floor and a part-glazed door to the left.

Inside, there is a large fireplace in the ground floor room to the right, and large beams in the roof space that once supported the upper storey.

This gatehouse is the only surviving building from Bletchingley Place, which was built by the Duke of Buckingham, taken over by Henry VIII, and given to Anne of Cleves in 1540 after her divorce from the King. The main house was eventually demolished in 1680 by the Earl of Peterborough.