The Manor House The Towner Art Gallery

The Manor House, now The Towner Art Gallery, was built in 1743 and features two storeys and an attic with seven windows and three dormers. The exterior is constructed with grey headers and red brick dressings, complemented by a stringcourse of red brick and grey headers. A wooden cornice with modillions crowns the building, and it has a hipped slate roof with lead ridges.

The main entrance, originally a porch, is a doorway with Doric columns and a pediment, set into the thickness of the garden wall, leading into a passage that connects the house to the billiard room. The main front faces the garden to the south and includes a large bay with three windows on the first floor, supported by Doric columns below. The ground floor doorway features Doric pilasters and a pediment, although the door itself is modern. Above the cornice of the bay is a wooden-balustraded parapet and a large dormer window, flanked by brickwork and a pediment, with one ordinary dormer on either side.

The east front has three bays, each with three windows; one bay is fronted with red brick while the others are re-fronted with roughcast. The northern wing has a first floor that is largely modern, but the ground floor predates the main part of the house. A billiard room was added at the southwest corner of the house in the late 19th century, featuring only a ground floor and connected to the main house by a corridor with a balustraded roof.