The Tower House And Adjoining Courtyard Walls At Rowton Castle

This building is a service block, now used as a house, dating from 1828. It is constructed from coursed Alberbury breccia rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof. The building is in a Tudor Gothic style and comprises a central block flanked by three-story square towers.

The central block has a plinth and a drip mould beneath the eaves. The towers have cornices, chamfered-coped battlemented parapets, and integral brick stacks set within the inner faces, with three octagonal shafts. The central section has a two-window front, featuring wooden cross-windows with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds, and a 20th-century glazed door also with a returned hoodmould. The towers have a first-floor two-light wooden casement, ground-floor wooden cross-windows, and a second-storey chamfered slit window – all with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds. A central first-floor shield displays a date.

Two attached walls connect the service block to Rowton Castle. The wall to the right is higher and located behind, with chamfered coping. The lower wall in front features chamfered battlemented coping and a segmental-headed doorway to the left. The interior has not been inspected. The service block forms the north-east side of the service courtyard located to the south-west of Rowton Castle.