Preston Tower (New)

Preston Tower is a house built around 1805 for Edmund Craster, with an east wing added in 1862 and alterations made to the entrance side in 1915. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a Welsh slate roof.

On the garden side, the house features a two-storey main block with five bays, a lower two-storey east wing with four bays to the right, and a single-storey L-plan outbuilding on the extreme right. The main block has a pedimented three-bay centre that slightly projects forward. The entrance porch is supported by two pairs of Roman Doric columns with fluted necking, topped with a cornice and a panelled blocking course. The façade includes sill bands and sash windows, along with a cornice and parapet adorned with bold guilloche moulding. The hipped roof is complemented by three large mid-19th century brick chimneys. The east wing features twelve-pane sash windows and a gabled roof with flat coping and kneelers.

On the entrance side, the main block has seven bays, with a three-bay centre from 1915 that replaced the earlier 19th-century centre featuring giant attached Ionic columns. This section includes a large solid porch, with twelve-pane sash windows on the ground floor and nine-pane sash windows above.

Inside, there is an imperial staircase with stick balusters and a coffered ceiling in the hall. The drawing room boasts a marble Gothick fireplace with a Tudor-arched lintel, clustered shafts, and quatrefoils, along with good multi-moulded cornices and six-panel doors with reveals.