Shepherds Cottage And Front Boundary Wall With Gateway

Shepherds Cottage, formerly known as Peacehaven, is a detached house dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, featuring double Roman clay tiles between high coped gables, which suggest it may have originally had a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, all with two lights and horizontal-bar glazing; the lower windows have labels. In the third bay from the left, there is a moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils and a separate label, leading to a boarded door. There is a single-storey lean-to against the south gable and an outshut at the rear. The interior has not been seen.

Approximately 4 metres east of the house, there is a boundary wall about 1.2 metres high, made of coursed rubble with plain coping that curves up to the gateway piers opposite the house door. The piers are square, about 2.25 metres high, and feature cornice caps and stepped pyramid caps, with a wrought-iron gate between them, enhancing the overall setting of the house.