Thorpe Waterville Castle, of which only a building used as a barn remains, was mainly the work of
Walter de Langton,
Bishop of Lichfield and Treasurer to
King Edward I. Chapel Cottage bears a
date stone marked with the year 1618, which is carved into the right hand side of the ingle nook fireplace. Reference to this the date stone is made in R. Gough's 1806 ''Translation of Camden's Britannia with Additions'', Northamptonshire p. 283: Robert Brown, founder of the sect of the Browniſts, [...] resided in a little thatched house in Thorpe Waterville which is still subsisting, with a date on the chimney 1618 During its renovation in the late 1970s, following a thatch roof fire, builders discovered what was rumoured to be one end of a tunnel stretching from the Manor House to Chapel Cottage. The owners of the cottage were reluctant to excavate the tunnel entrance fully so the validity of this cannot be confirmed. ==References==