King'S Gatchell And Walls Enclosing Forecourt Continued As North Retaining Wall To Garden

King's Gatchell is a house that dates from the late 16th to early 17th century, with later enlargements in the 18th century. The east front has been refenestrated, and a turret and porch were added to the west front around 1870. The building is rendered over random rubble on the main elevations, with Bath stone dressings, a plain tiled roof, and a turret with a pyramid slate roof. The gable ends have coped verges, and there are brick stacks. The house is L-shaped, originally likely consisting of a south cell and cross passage block oriented roughly north-south, with an 18th-century wing attached at the southwest corner.

The entrance front features two storeys and is arranged in a 2:1:3 bay configuration. It has 12-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds, set in an angle with a two-storey canted bay that has three-light mullioned casements. To the left, there is a flat-roofed single-storey three-sided projection with a three-light mullioned window, and to the right, a similar one-bay addition containing a porch. The entrance has a pointed arch doorway with a 19th-century plank door that has decorative fringes, topped by a square hood mould with carved foliage terminals. A four-bay single-storey verandah with a slate roof is supported by wooden piers on the northwest front, aligned with the entrance.

The garden front features a long four-bay arcade with 19th-century nullioned windows and a full-height canted bay. The interior has not been viewed but is said to contain evidence of a jointed cruck roof and early 17th-century plasterwork decoration on the first floor. The forecourt wall, likely from the 18th century and subsequently altered, is made of red brick in Flemish bond with a rubble plinth and sandstone coping, standing about three metres high against the north gable end and continuing east as a retaining wall for the garden. There is also a late 19th-century dwarf wall enclosing the forecourt on the west front. The property is believed to have once been a coaching inn, and a cobbled pavement is said to survive beneath the forecourt. Before 1880, it was known as Southwick House.