Little Harle Tower

This is a house incorporating medieval, early 18th century, and 1861-62 elements. It is constructed of rubble, dressed stone, and ashlar, with Welsh slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan, presenting a three-storey medieval tower on the left, a two-storey, five-bay early 18th century centre, and a large, externally Victorian tower on the right.

The medieval tower features slit windows on the ground floor and a blocked pointed-arched doorway on its return. The first floor has a 12-pane sash window with thick glazing bars in an architrave, and a similar 9-pane sash is on the second floor. A crenellated parapet tops the tower.

The 18th century section has a part-glazed Victorian door under a hoodmould, alongside 15-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars in architraves. The three central first-floor windows are later 12-pane sashes. A plain parapet is present.

The Victorian tower on the right, though having a Georgian core (as evidenced by the interior), was altered and extended between 1861 and 1862. It comprises two bays, with rusticated quoins and bands. The left bay has mullioned and mullion-and-transom windows, while the right bay features a two-storey canted bay window with mullions and a hoodmould on the ground floor. The first floor has tall Gothic windows with cinquefoil heads, and a blank, pointed-arched panel of Geometric tracery above. Corniced ridge stacks are visible on the 18th-century section, with other corniced stacks elsewhere.

The entrance front is entirely from the mid-19th century, featuring a Gothic doorway behind a large crenellated porte-cochere, and irregular fenestration with Gothic detail similar to that of the garden front tower.

Inside the medieval tower, the walls are 6 feet thick, with a vaulted ground floor and a stone newel stair, which is actually located within the 18th-century section, along with evidence of a medieval house adjoining the tower. The Victorian addition houses an open-well stair. A drawing room within this section has a Rococo plaster ceiling dating from 1740-50, a carved mid-18th century fireplace with a broken semicircular lintel framing a bust and flanking terms, and two elaborate Palladian pedimented doorcases. Other rooms are Victorian in style, particularly the library and hall, which contains a screen of three pointed arches.