Queens Tower

This is a house, built in 1839 for Samuel Roberts, and enlarged in 1855 for the Duke of Norfolk. It is constructed of ashlar stone with slate roofs and is in a crenellated Gothic style. The house is square in plan and includes an attached ornamental gateway, an octagonal turret, and corner towers.

The exterior features a moulded and chamfered plinth, string courses, and crenellated parapets. Most windows are lancet shape, and include transoms. The south entrance front has a two-light and a four-light window, and a crenellated porch with a four-centred arched doorway. The doorway is under a flat hood with a Latin inscription and curved brackets; the porch contains a traceried vault and walls. To the left of the porch is a recessed bay with a blocked window, and below it is a square crenellated projection. The north front has a three-light window above and a four-light window below, both centrally positioned. A machicolated stair turret, consisting of three stages, is to the left, and an elliptical arched gateway with flanking octagonal turrets, which have ogee domes and finials, is to the right. Above the gateway is a seven-light traceried panel set under a square gabled feature. Link walls flank the gateway, containing a niche above and a blank window below. To the left of the gateway is a single-stage machicolated octagonal turret, and to the right a three-stage octagonal tower, also with machicolations, and an external octagonal side wall stack. The third stage of the tower has a two-light window. The west front incorporates a face of the tower, a canted crenellated bay window with three three-light windows, and a French window above. A square projection with double octagonal side wall stacks is also present, along with a smaller canted two-storey bay window with single lights above and cusped lancets below, with traceried panels above the lancets. The east side has a plain parapet, a triple side wall stack, and a two-light and a three-light window on each floor.

The interior is said to contain a curved stone stair and late 19th-century decorative details. Samuel Roberts Snr., a manufacturer of silver plate and an antiquarian with an interest in Mary Queen of Scots, commissioned the building; this may explain its name and style. His son, Samuel Jnr., lived in the house from 1839 to 1887.