Wharmton Tower

Wharmton Tower is a house dating from circa 1861, designed by George Shaw for John Dicken Whitehead. Constructed in ashlar with a slate roof, the house has eight bays arranged over two and three storeys, with a conservatory on the right side. It is an example of Gothic Revival architecture.

The house has a projecting plinth and a distinctive skyline created by gables to bays one, two, and three, and castellations to bays six through nine. A three-storey projecting porch is located in bay six, featuring castellations, diagonal buttresses, a pointed arch doorway, and a glazed inner door with carved decorative tracery. Square and canted bay windows are present in bays two and nine; bay two has shouldered mullion and transom windows, while bay nine has cusped mullion and transom windows. Other ground floor windows are four and five-light shouldered head mullion windows, and four-light cusped pointed arch windows. The window in bay one is a corbelled gabled first-floor oriel. Bays two and three, and bays eight and nine, project outwards. First-floor windows are of one, two, and four lights, some with pointed arches and two with tracery. The gables have coped edges and incorporate gargoyles, with a blind corbelled oriel present on the left-hand gable. Ridge chimney stacks have cornices. Internally, the house retains original features including encaustic tiles and stained glass.