The cottage is a red-brick single-storey structure with a tiled hipped roof, built to a rectangular plan. It is an architecturally modest ancillary building directly associated with Deal Castle. The heritage value of the cottage resides almost entirely in its external form and character, as its interior has been denuded of historic features as a consequence of use during the 20th century. The location of the cottage has been historically associated with Deal Castle since at least the early 18th century, indicated by the earliest documentary evidence for the Captain’s Garden. It was constructed in
c.1895, probably to provide accommodation for members of the Captain’s household. By the 1920s this was definitely the case, with the cottage occupied by a chauffeur (the coach house to the south being used to garage the Captain’s car).

Since the 1980s the cottage has been vacant, but in 2019 a heritage statement as written as part of a proposal for conversion of the cottage to use as a café. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2019, Conversion of former cottage at Deal Castle to Cafe use, Heritage Statement (Unpublished document). SKE54251.