The Tower

The Tower is a late 19th-century building that features a tower and a small shop. It is constructed from Accrington red brick and has decorative bands of terracotta mouldings, with terracotta blocks used for the sill and impost strings. The roof is covered with red tiles, some of which have ridge cresting.

The exterior consists of a two-storey, one-bay front that is set back to the left of the four-storey tower. The tower has an arch on the ground floor that is flanked by splayed walls. The upper floors are corbelled out above the arch and are adorned with bands of floral mouldings, which continue across the first floor to the left bay. Inside the semicircular tower arch, there is a four-panel half-glazed shop door. The first floor of the tower features a single pair of round-headed one-over-one sash windows at the front. On the second floor, two faces of the tower have an oculus framed in terracotta, and on the third floor, there are two single round-headed louvred lights, repeated on all faces. A floral eaves band runs beneath a pierced parapet that is decorated with terracotta and rises at each corner to form a square pinnacle.

The left bay has a semicircular-headed multi-pane shop window on the ground floor, with two round-headed one-over-one sash windows on the first floor. At the eaves level, there is a Lombardic frieze. The sill and impost strings arch over the window heads and run across both fronts, encircling the tower.

Inside, there are stairs with winders leading to the first floor and ladders to the upper floors. A tablet dated 1703 is set into the left wall, which indicates the date of the adjoining property and was revealed before the construction of the tower and shop.