Nettlecombe Cottage, About 125 Metres North Of Leonard Wills Field Centre

Nettlecombe Cottage, located about 125 metres north of Leonard Wills Field Centre, is a cottage with attached outbuildings that was enlarged around 1820 from an earlier building, likely by Richard Carver. The structure is built of red sandstone random rubble with a roughcast east front, and features a slate roof with a hipped west end. It has tall brick stacks at the southeast corner and on the north front.

The east front is two and a half storeys high with one and a half storey wings, showcasing gabled parapets with ball finials. The central block has a lancet window in the gable end, while the first floor features a three-light mullioned casement with a hood mould. The ground floor includes a canted four-light bay window with leaded panes, and the wings have symmetrical lancets in their gable ends. There are moulded pointed arch openings under square hood moulds, with the right wing accessed by a short flight of steps, likely leading to doors on the inner returns. The main entrance is on the left return (south front) and consists of a pointed arch entrance set in an earlier segmental headed opening, with a plank door.

The south front has a seven-bay frontage, which includes three blocked windows to the right of the arched carriageway entrance and two unlit bays on the first floor to the left. The north front features two two-storey gabled wings with outshuts between. The interior has not been viewed. This building was likely used as stables for Nettlecombe Court, now the Leonard Wills Field Centre, before a new block was constructed by Sir John Trevelyan in 1792, and it may date back to the enlargements of the 17th century.