Entrance Walls, Gardeners Cottage Southside And Horsley Towers Cottage

These entrance walls, service buildings, and farm buildings are located at Horsley Towers, dating to around 1870 and built in the Lovelace style. The construction is primarily of random flint rubble with brick and terracotta dressings, with a whitewashed and rendered range to the south. The roofs are slate covered.

A long entrance wall, approximately 150 metres in length and 15 feet high, extends to the west, set back on the left side. The right half features a decorative projecting brick cornice beneath a machicolated parapet, while the left range has brick coping. “Breather” openings, edged in brick, are present on both sides, with arched, metal-framed casement windows on the right and left respectively. The arched entrance on the left incorporates a brick, rib-vaulted passage and a central oculus.

A farm building range surrounds a courtyard, with Southside and Horsley Towers Cottage forming the fourth side. These buildings are two storeys high, featuring arcaded brick eaves and large, chamfered-edge brick arcading to the ground floor on three sides. The fenestration consists of irregular, fixed casement windows, with some breathers, all brick edged. Arched openings on the north side flank a central granary, and further gates are situated on the north-east and south-east corners.

The cottage range to the south includes a round tower in the re-entrant angle between “Southside” and the entrance wall. This tower is two storeys high, with the ground floor rising to become one storey at the east end (Horsley Towers Cottage). The building has three ridge stacks, one on the left, center, and right. Irregularly placed brick-edged, metal-frame casement windows are present, with six first-floor windows obscured by foliage. The ground floor windows to the left are within arched surrounds, while four arched windows and an arched door, leading to Horsley Towers Cottage, are located on the right. Additional doors are positioned to the left of center and on the left side. The gardener's cottage and garage range to the south consists of two storeys, with a three-bay cottage to the left, featuring boarded-up windows. A two-bay range to the right flanks a three-bay garage range, which is set back, articulated with Doric pilaster/piers, some of which are cut off.