Castle Farmhouse

Castle Farmhouse is a large, long farmhouse built in the 17th century from red brick, topped with a red pantile roof. It features brick gable copings and brick stacks, including a large triple diagonal-shafted ridge stack and a rebuilt stack at the left end. The building has two storeys and a loft, with a total of seven bays; the seventh bay is distinct and includes a through-arch leading to the farmyard.

The farmhouse has a rubble plinth with a brick chamfered top and a moulded stone drip course above the ground floor on the right. There is a nogged brick course running above the first floor. The main section of the house has six 2-light limestone recessed chamfered mullion windows on the first floor. The seventh bay on the right has a similar window, positioned higher to accommodate the archway below, which features a brick Tudor-arched head.

The ground floor has seen more alterations; it includes one similar window in the sixth bay and the frame of another window that has been changed to a door in the fourth bay. The first and third bays contain broad triple windows with stone voussoirs and shallow arched heads, fitted with 20th-century glazing. The second bay features a Tudor-arched door set in a flat-headed wave-moulded surround with moulded spandrels. There is another doorway in the fifth bay with a depressed-arched moulded stone surround and a 20th-century door. A similar mullion window is present on the right end gable.

At the time of the last survey in December 1999, the interior was not available for inspection. However, it was reported in 1982 that the farmhouse retains original massive floor beams and double-collared trusses with queen posts below. The interior was largely 19th century, possibly due to construction being incomplete when the castle was besieged, leading to abandonment until the 19th century.