The Towers

The Towers is a house built in 1890 by William Pritchard. It is constructed from rock-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with stone copings, red tile cresting, and gable end stacks. The house has a 2-storey, 4-bay front, though the left of centre bay has a cross-gabled attic, and the right of centre bay is 3 storeys high. A flight of steps leads to a projecting porch with angle buttresses; a corner tourelle is surmounted by heraldic lions, and a 3-light window faces forward, with a half-glazed 4-panel door on the right return. Above the porch is a canted oriel window with a single light to each face at first floor level. A second storey rises above roof level as a quasi-tower, featuring 1-light windows and a crow-stepped crenellated parapet.

To the left of centre is a single-storey canted bay window on the ground floor, with a 3-light mullioned window. A similar window on the first floor is transomed, and the attic window has 2 lights. To the left end is a 2-storey flat-roofed square bay window with a dentilled eaves cornice, featuring 5-light mullioned windows with leaded glazing on both floors. The right end bay has a single-storey square bay based on paired cross windows. On the first floor is a 4-light mullioned and transomed window. An eaves corbel table is above the third and fourth bays, and the single-storey windows have weathered copings with shallow crenellations.

The interior includes a panelled entrance hall. There is a panelled ceiling in the room at the right end, dentilled cornices in the Hall and Drawing Rooms, a stone mantel in the Drawing Room, 5-panel doors, and a staircase with twin twist newels, a bullnosed step, dado, and spandrel panelling.