The Towers

The Towers is a villa built in 1872 for Colonel Sir Robert Edis. It is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings. The villa is two and three storeys high, with three projecting gabled ranges and flanking wings. It has slate roofs with pierced ridge tiles, side stacks, and internal stacks with octagonal shafts. Features include a stone capped plinth, cornice, and bands connecting window sills. The windows are hung sashes with relieving arches above stone mullioned and transomed lights. A three-stage tower provides the entrance, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and iron finial. The building has an embattled parapet, a moulded stone cornice, and a dated plaque in the west wall above a cinquefoiled window. The doorway, made of Ketton stone, has a deeply moulded, four-centred arch with a moulded abacus and shafted jambs. A shield is positioned above the door, bearing the inscription 'Salve' and supported by winged dogs. The interior retains original 19th-century details. The villa is described in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England on page 215.