Otterburn Tower

Otterburn Tower is a country house that has been converted into a hotel. It was built after 1830 for Mr. James and incorporates masonry from an 18th-century house, which may include even older elements. The building was extended at the rear in 1904 by F.W. Rich for Howard Pease. It features dressed stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs, designed in a castellated Tudor style with a complex and irregular layout.

The front of the building has a large castellated porch located to the left of the center, which includes a Tudor-arched entry and shields with crests. To the left, there is a large tower with 18th-century masonry that stands three stories tall and has three-light mullioned and mullioned-and-transomed windows. To the right of the porch, there is a two-storey dining room section made of older masonry; its windows consist of early 20th-century casements, with a four-light mullioned-and-transomed window on the ground floor and two two-light mullioned windows above. An irregular four-bay section to the right features one- and two-light windows. All Victorian windows retain their original eight-pane sashes. The end sections have corbel tables with small, closely set rounded corbels. The center section has a parapet that projects on a broach chamfer, and the battlements include several higher corner turrets that project with broad double chamfers. The roofs are gabled with tall corniced ridges and end stacks.

The 1904 additions at the rear include a castellated tower on the right with boldly concave coping and elegantly curved water spouts, and a double-span section on the left featuring 16-pane sashes and steeply pitched roofs.

Inside, the main features date from 1904. The dining room has panelling, a large wood fireplace with the Pease crest in the overmantel, and four stained-glass roundels. The drawing room contains an older marble fireplace, which was brought from another location, featuring paired Ionic columns and a frieze depicting the She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. The library has a large Inglenook fireplace with a segmental arch and five painted panels above that depict scenes from the Battle of Otterburn, along with a finely detailed joggled lintel above the fireplace.