Barn to west of Tower Farmhouse

The barn located to the west of Tower Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, originally constructed as the kitchen range of the hall range of the Bishop of Ely's Palace, which has since been demolished. Built for Bishop Alcock between 1486 and 1500, the barn features red brick with a deeper red brick diaper patterning and a plinth coursed in English bond with a chamfered limestone band. The roof was damaged by fire in 1984 and has since been replaced with red pantile.

This single-storey structure includes a kitchen and a chamber to the west, with an octagonal side stack in the crow-stepped gable wall. A large lateral stack on the south wall has been reduced to eaves height and was opened in the 19th century to serve as an entrance to the barn. The west gable has a lean-to with weatherings in the gable wall of the original roof, while the wall to the east is from the 20th century and features a side stack. The barn also has dentil brick eaves cornices.

On the south elevation, there is a blocked four-centred arched doorway on the left, alongside a five-light ground floor window with stone jambs and chamfered mullions. The first floor has three windows, one of which retains its original wave-moulded brick jambs and brick label, although it is without frames since 1984.

Inside, the kitchen hearth features a wide four-centred pointed brick arch and a baking oven with a drying chamber above. Blocked openings in the north wall suggest a former entrance to a vaulted passage beside the hall, which included a wide four-centred brick arched servery to the left. There are also blocked first floor windows and two arched recesses in the chamber above the hall. Recesses in the north and south walls on the first floor indicate the position of the east wall of the kitchen chamber. The west wall has blocked openings, including a door at ground floor leading to the lean-to, and another at first floor leading to a garderobe and a blocked hearth.

The Palace was a favored residence of the medieval bishops but was damaged during the Civil War and demolished in the 18th century. A lease from 1746 refers to its conversion into a farmhouse.