Tavenor Tower

This is a villa dating from around 1850. It is built with rendered walls and has a hipped roof covered in grey slate. The main block is two storeys high with four windows, and it is accompanied by a recessed wing to the left. Pilasters run up the facade of the main block, on each floor and between the first and second bays. The windows on the front are tripartite, with four panes to each light and transoms. One window is set within an eared architrave, and the front door is set within a portico. The portico has a pair of Ionic columns at each corner and features a four-panel door topped with a fanlight within a pilastered case, the arch above the door being round and keystone-detailed. A modillion entablature is surmounted by a balustrade; a casement window has two four-pane lights and is similarly framed by an eared architrave. A first floor stringcourse is present along with pargeted frieze and sill band detailing. The first floor consists of four casement windows, each with two three-pane lights, within eared architraves, a modillion cornice, and six chimneys with arched panels, modillion cornices, and old pots. The recessed left bay features banded rustication to the ground floor, a boarded door, a four-pane sash window to the first floor, and a mansard roof with a two-pane sash in a dormer window that has a pediment and dentils. The north face, overlooking the Dee, has a projecting right wing with recessed two-pane sashes and three openings on the ground floor, a sill band, three first-floor sashes, an eaves cornice, and a mansard roof with three pedimented dormers. A slender tower has loops at attic level, a round-arched belvedere, a dentil cornice, and a pyramidal roof. To the left of the tower is a casement window, followed by tripartite casements with round arches on the first floor, and a canted two-storey bay window. The interior of the building has not been inspected.