The Towers

The Towers is a house dating to 1874, designed for James Wilson. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs, built in a French Gothic style.

The front elevation features a plinth, string courses, eaves band, shouldered coped gables with kneelers. There are two storeys plus attics and a six-window facade. The entrance front has wooden framed cross casements with label moulds and two buttressed external stacks. A central crenellated porch features buttresses, a chamfered and moulded pointed arched doorway, panelled double doors, a niche with a crest and pinnacle above the door. A right return has an unglazed opening with a cusped head and two shafts. To the left is an attached canted bay window with two plain sashes and a central shaft; to the right, a canted hipped single-storey projection with moulded eaves and a wooden framed cross casement with glazing bars.

The garden front presents a main block to the right, with a projecting central round tower flanked by gabled wings. The tower has string courses, a crenellated parapet, bays divided by buttresses topped with pinnacles, and a conical slated spire. The first floor has three stone mullioned cross casements; above, three cusped headed triple lancets; and below, three single-light mullioned windows with transoms. The wings have a three-light cross casement on the first floor and a smaller two-light casement window above, all with label moulds. Below the main block, a canted bay window has a crenellated parapet and a crest; the central light of the left bay has been altered to a French window. A lower range to the left has a stone mullioned cross casement on each floor. A two-storey round tower is found at the left corner, featuring buttresses, a crenellated parapet, and an octagonal spire. The first floor has a three-light stone mullioned cross casement, flanked by single-light transomed windows, all with blind tracery; below are two two-light windows with a central shaft that is divided by a buttress.

The left return has an entrance bay with a canted stone oriel window on corbels and scroll brackets, with a hipped roof. A crenellated parapet is topped with a stepped flat gable containing a pointed arched recess with a datestone. There is a stone mullioned cross casement with stained glass. Below is a chamfered pointed arched doorway with fleurons, covering a narrow door with overlight, flanked to the left by a small casement. To the left, a hipped double bay has a moulded string course with a central ogee arch and finial. It contains two stone mullioned cross casements. Below, a five-light stone mullioned cross casement is set within the central light. Above the casement, a cusped headed panel contains a rebus.

The interior was not inspected.