Arnfield Tower

Arnfield Tower is a house built around 1875. It features finely coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with ridge cresting. The tower roof is adorned with bands of fishscale slates and four lucarnes. The stone-coped shaped gables are unique, with no two alike, and each has finials. The structure includes two gable end stacks and two eaves stacks, one of which has an external stack that rises from the ground, while the other rises from a gable above a window. The house has a double pile plan with a projecting tower to the west and consists of two storeys plus the tower, with asymmetrical elevations.

The east elevation features a central porch with a shallow pointed arch and a drip mould with headstops beneath a shaped gable. To the left, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay with angle quoins. A castellated canted bay window is located on the ground floor, with the centre light having a mullion and transom. The first floor has a window with a mullion and transom, and a horizontal drip mould above with stops. A shallow pitched pointed arched single light window is set in the gable. Above the porch, there is a tall single light window with a transom. To the right, a three-light mullioned and transomed window is on the ground floor, with a similar but smaller window above, and a single light dormer window above that with a shaped gable.

The west tower is square in plan, with chamfered angles and stops in its upper parts, rising to four shaped gables. It has a recessed pyramidal roof and a whimsical gableted chimney stack squeezed into the south-west corner. There are flat elongated hexagonal windows at half height, and a 19th-century wooden porch abuts the base. The house was built by the Manchester Corporation.