Tower And Roadside Wall To West Of Houndhill Farmhouse

The tower and roadside wall to the west of Houndhill Farmhouse is a boundary wall with an attached tower, built around 1640 to 1644 for Richard Elmhirst. It is constructed from rubble sandstone and sits atop a roadside bank, with a circular stone tower at the north end. The wall features triangular copings that rise over a blocked quoined doorway. The tower has a doorway facing Houndhill Farmhouse, which is adorned with chamfered quoins and a curved lintel, and there are four small openings beneath a coped parapet. Inside the tower, narrow stone steps lead to a raised platform behind the parapet. This structure served as a civil war fortification to protect a Royalist garrison at Houndhill.