Tower Court

Tower Court, dating to 1864 and altered in the 20th century, was likely built for James Taylor. The villa is constructed of white Pease brick with ashlar dressings, featuring a Welsh slate roof, terracotta ridge, brick chimneys, and stone gable copings.

The building is three stories and has a three-window front. A prominent octagonal tower rises over a projecting entrance bay, which has a double-chamfered stone surround to the half-glazed door, with a plain overlight and side lights. Above the doorway is an oriel window with a stone floor, sill band, and stone parapet. Narrow sashes are placed in alternate planes of the tower, set under stone battlements. To the left of the tower, a crow-stepped gable features a renewed ground-floor window. Stone mullioned windows, three-lights wide, are positioned on the first and second floors, with hoodmoulds over the second-floor window, which is raised over a high central light. A small vent slit sits in the gable peak.

The left bay of the house contains a square, projecting stone bay on the ground floor, a canted bay on the first floor, and a three-light second-floor window, all in stone surrounds with stone mullions beneath a stone corbelled eaves gutter. A steeply pitched roof is topped with a tall, square brick chimney with a battlemented stone coping. The right return, facing Windsor Road, has a wide crow-stepped gable over a central, renewed door, with a small light to the side, beneath a tall stone panel. Paired sashes are positioned on each upper floor, flanked by alternate block surrounds. A lower, wide section to the right has a pointed arch to a stone surround of a renewed door, with an overlight. A projecting centre features a three-light ground-floor window with a stone mullion, and a renewed first-floor window under a stepped parapet to a dormer gable. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value with other buildings on Glenside.