Spa Wood Cottage

Spa Wood Cottage is an eye-catcher and well-house built around 1730, with significant modernizations made around 1970. The structure features coursed rubble that is partly rendered, with some ashlar dressings, and has a modern tiled roof. It exhibits a Palladian style with a slight villa front, highlighted by a central tower that breaks through the gable apex. The main elevation consists of three bays, with a 20th-century brick extension to the right. There is a stone plinth band rendered above, coursed squared rubble on the tower, and 20th-century rendered infill in the archway. The archway contains two pairs of windows and a central door, all made of 20th-century timber, with a central oculus above. A large two-light window is located in the left bay, and there is an impost band above the arch. The tower features a pyramid tile roof. On the entrance front, the central tower's form is more pronounced, with a skirted outshut on three sides. The two-storey front has three windows and a central doorway, all again made of 20th-century timber, and there is an external modern brick stack to the right. The interior has been heavily altered but is said to have originally contained a basin for the chalybeate spring in the open archway, along with accommodation for a spring keeper. This building is part of the improvements made to Castle Hill in the 1730s, possibly overseen by Lords Herbert and Burlington.