The Tower House

The Tower House is an estate house, originally built around 1770 as a grandstand for the park racecourse, and is attributed to the design of Thomas and William Ivory of Norwich. It was converted into a dwelling in the 19th century. The building features red brick with diaper work and has roofs concealed behind parapets.

The structure includes a circular tower that rises seven storeys, with attached two-storey and single-storey wings. A stair tower is located to the south, also seven storeys high, constructed in header-bond brickwork with traces of diapering. The south side has small loop windows with stone lintels, and the castellated parapet has been rebuilt.

On the north side, there is a square two-storey and basement block made of English bond brickwork, with a platband at the first-floor level that continues around the tower. The east wall features a three-light ogee-headed ground floor casement with intersecting tracery and leaded glazing, along with a first-floor sash window that has glazing bars and a segmental head. Below the castellated parapet, there is a moulded brick cornice.

The north wall contains three ogee-headed recesses with splayed reveals; the centre recess holds a three-light window similar to the one on the east side. Above this, there are two narrower ogee-headed niches flanking a square-headed sash window with margin panes. To the west, a lower, later two-storey block wraps around the south-west corner, featuring two and three-light casements with leaded glazing and segmental heads, along with a small single-storey block in the north-west angle.