Tower House

Tower House is a detached house dating to 1902 and built for John James Savage, a London jeweller. The house is constructed of red brick, render, tile-hanging, with cast-iron and a tile roof. It is set out to London Road as two symmetrical gabled wings with a recessed centre, and a four-storey tower to the left. An arcaded porch of three bays leads to the centre, with an entrance under a central elliptical arch featuring a fanlight and keystone; a bracketed balcony with wooden balustrade sits above the arcade. The wings have brick quoins, and each has a two-storey, six-sided bay with plaster ornament to the spandrels, a lead ogee roof, and casement windows with top-lights. Modillion cornices run along the gables, which are decorated with strapwork and feature a flat-arched window with pediment. A flat-arched dormer with an elliptical pediment is set into the centre.

A single-storey conservatory, semicircular in plan with gables facing east and south, extends to the south. To the south is a four-storey tower with flat-arched French windows on the ground floor, a shallow canted oriel with a rendered spandrel and ogee lead roof to the first floor, keyed oculi to the east, south, and west fronts on the second floor, a cornice, segmental-arched tripartite windows to the east, south, and west fronts on the fourth floor, a modillion cornice, wooden balustrade, and finally, an octagonal lantern with an ogee roof and finial. A single-storey, gabled, and tile-hung wing, extended in the late 20th century, sits to the west of the tower.

The rear elevation is largely composed of two gabled wings, the gables corniced and tile-hung, with a canted tile-hung oriel to the left and a six-bay cast-iron round-arched verandah and balcony to the right. The verandah and balcony have decorative piers, openwork spandrels, and foliage panels to the balustrade. Some 20th-century additions are present on the north front.

The interior vestibule features two doors with architraves and elaborate overdoors. The south-east room on the ground floor contains an elliptical-arched fireplace alcove with pilasters, panelled reveals, a head keystone, and a three-bay arcade to the south with Doric columns, a decorative frieze, and a cornice. The south-west ground floor room has a panelled dado and the south end framed by pilasters and architrave for a former fireplace, with a shallow curved bay to the west and a decorative frieze and cornice.