Pepperpot Castle

Pepperpot Castle is an early 19th-century building that was enlarged in the late 20th century. Originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Haddon Lodge, it served as a lodge for Lady Acland's drive and is now private dwellings. The structure is rendered, likely over rubble, and features a plinth and a crenellated parapet that conceals what is probably a flat roof. The building has slate roofs on its 20th-century additions and a rendered stack that extends into a merlon in the southern corner.

The castle has a triangular plan with hexagonal towers at each corner and a single-storey porch on the north front. Inside, there is a stair in the south turret, and the original structure has colonettes on all arrises. The north front is two storeys high, with towers that have attics indicated by moulded string courses. There are blind lancets in the towers and a blind quatrefoil on the first floor between them. Below, there is a gabled single-storey porch with a pointed arch window featuring divided tracery to the left of a plank door, which has a pointed arch and a half-glazed inner door. The first floor is lit by similar pointed arch windows with divided tracery on the east and west fronts, with 20th-century additions below. A glazed lancet window lights the stair in the south turret.

Overall, Pepperpot Castle is an entertaining little building with sympathetic 20th-century additions. The drive it served was constructed by Lady Harriet Acland during her long widowhood from 1778 to 1815, connecting Pixton Park in Dulverton, where her daughter, the Countess of Carnarvon, lived, with her own estates near Wiveliscombe.