Tower Cottage

Tower Cottage is a house built around 1840 by LN Cottingham, located in Bury St Edmunds. It features red brick with purple brick diapering and rusticated stone dressings, topped with slate roofs, all in an early Victorian Tudor style.

The exterior is three storeys high, with a cellar in part, and has an irregular shape with two gabled ranges. A tall narrow turret, possibly housing an original staircase, is crenellated and topped with a lead-covered spirelet. On the south side, there is an internal chimney stack with four moulded brick shafts, each with moulded bases and heavy starred caps. The windows are designed in a Tudoresque style, including a five-light, mullion-and-transom window with arched heads on the ground floor and a three-light rectangular bay on the first storey, which has a moulded oriel base and a row of stone panels below decorated with quatrefoils. A stepped stone band runs beneath the first storey windows. The entrance door features a rectangular hood-mould with arched spandrels, where the left side is carved with the initials TF, likely for Thomas Fenton, and the right side displays an arrangement of mason's tools.

Inside, although the layout has been altered, several original Tudoresque fittings remain. The small square entrance vestibule has a coved and painted wood ceiling with moulded ribs supported by ornate capitals and four hanging pendants. A half-glazed door leading to the ground floor room has a pointed head and linenfold panelling at the base. The principal room on the upper storey boasts a fine ornate Gothic fireplace surround, a cornice with paterae, and carved wood fittings.