The Retreat And Attached Walls And Gatepiers

The Retreat, originally a public house, is a house that likely remodels an early 18th-century structure. It was altered in the early 19th century and has seen changes in the 20th century. The building features painted render over brick and has a double-pitched pantile roof with moulded stacks on the party walls, truncated to the right.

The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range. A coped parapet rises at the ends to meet the stacks, and there is a hipped asbestos roof with a deep canopy on the first floor, supported by cast iron trellised columns and fronted by plain railings with lead ball ornaments. The floor above is supported by four Tuscan columns. The first floor has 20th-century French windows, while the ground floor features a door with four glazed panels at the top and roundels at the base, flanked by two/two-pane sash windows with splayed reveals and clasping Tuscan pilasters at the quoins.

The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have been altered. Attached to the right of the building is a brick-lined rubblestone wall, approximately 3 meters high and 20 meters long, which curves and ramps down to meet chamfered rusticated gatepiers that are also approximately 3 meters high, featuring a wrought iron overthrow that once supported an inn sign. The wall continues downhill to the left, connecting to a wall attached to Strumble Cottage.