Tower Cottage Wormleighton Manor Gatehouse

The building comprises a gatehouse and lodge, dating to 1613. It was constructed for Sir Robert, the first Lord Spencer. The construction material is ironstone ashlar with moulded stone cornices, string courses and parapets. The roof of Tower Cottage is tiled, with a coped gable parapet; the roofs of the gateway and tower are likely lead, although not visible. There are renewed ridge stacks with square shafts and moulded cornices. The building is composed of a tower on the left and Tower Cottage on the right, with a central gateway projecting slightly.

The front of the building, facing Wormleighton Manor House, features a round arch to the gateway, formed of two chamfered orders, surmounted by a moulded and panelled entablature. This entablature supports a panel displaying the Spencer achievement of arms, with dated panels bearing the devices of the Willoughbys and Spencers displayed to the left and right. A four-light window sits above the arch. String courses run across the tower. The tower includes a four-light window on the ground floor and three-light windows on the upper floors, with string courses separating the first, second, and third floors. The tower and gateway have parapets with a moulded string course and coping.

Tower Cottage is lower in height and features a chamfered Tudor arch doorway on its right side, with a low, broad, ribbed door consisting of two rows of three panels. The ground floor windows are three-light mullioned, with hood moulds. The interior of the gateway contains Tudor arch doors, one of which on the left features stylised flower spandrels. The left return side of the tower has three-light windows on the second and third floors, while the right return side of Tower Cottage has a 19th-century Tudor arch doorway and three-light windows with hood moulds. The front facing the village is largely similar, and includes an achievement of the Royal arms and dated rose and thistle panels to the left and right. A sundial is positioned on the parapet. Part of the lower section of the tower is obscured by an adjoining building. Tower Cottage presently has a 20th-century window where a door once stood. The building originally served as the gatehouse for Wormleighton Manor House and has been documented in historical records.