Tower Cottage And Attached Wall Tower House And Attached Wall

Tower Cottage, also known as Tower House, is a cottage dated 1656, which has likely been largely rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century and the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and features a pantile roof. The building has a two-unit double-depth plan.

The central door, which is from the 20th century, is flanked by 20th-century casement windows on both the ground and first floors. The ground floor windows have flat-arched brick heads, while the first-floor windows have segmental-arched brick heads. Above the door is a limestone datestone, and the eaves are decorated with dentilled brickwork.

To the right of the center, a square brick turret rises, featuring oculus windows on each side. An attached wall to the left and the rear of the cottage is made of brick and has row-headed arches. This wall separates the forecourt from the garden of Wartnaby Hall, which is not included in the listing. The wall incorporates medieval stonework that is mostly visible from the garden side. This stonework was likely removed from the Church of St Michael in Wartnaby during its significant restoration in 1867-1868.

The wall includes a complete 13th-century doorway made of ironstone, featuring chamfered jambs with attached shafts at the angles, imposts, a moulded pointed head, and a hood mould with label stops. There is also a semi-circular ironstone capital of a respond with a polygonal limestone abacus decorated with nailhead ornament. Additionally, part of the head of a 14th-century window with a quatrefoil, hood mould, and label stops is present, along with a possible canopy head and half of a circular cross head made of limestone, which may have been a gable cross. The back wall of the cottage, which is within a conservatory, has a similar respond and a two-light window with cusped Y tracery and a hood mould.