Yannon Towers

Yannon Towers is a mansion house, built in 1851 and later converted into two separate dwellings. It is constructed of rendered material with a slate roof and has a complex, irregular plan executed in a Picturesque Tudor Gothic style.

The exterior is two and three storeys high, with a three-window front elevation. A projecting gabled entrance bay on the east side has a Tudor-arched door beneath a three-light oriel window with stone mullions, a parapet, and a 20th-century window in the attic. The gable has a finial and pendant. A wing to the right of this bay provides access to the upper floors and stairwell, featuring stacks. The south garden front has a gabled bay to the left with three-light windows. To the right is a large, square castellated tower with a first-floor oriel window mirroring the front and three-light, stone-mullioned windows to the upper stage. A castellated, octagonal turret rises from the rear north-west corner, along with smaller turrets to the south and east. Tall two-light windows with wooden mullions and transoms are present, with the ground-floor windows featuring label moulds. A 20th-century dormer is also visible.

The interior ground floor walls are approximately 1 meter thick, featuring moulded cornices, panelled friezes, reveals and soffits to panelled doors, and high skirting boards. Window frames have richly-moulded frames and glazing bars. A spectacular, high entrance hall has a panelled ceiling with pendants, leading through a wide segmental arch to a vaulted passage and a large stairwell (now within a separate dwelling). The circular first-floor landing features four-panel doors, and one room has a white marble, Egyptian-style fireplace.

The building is considered an interesting example of Gothic Revival architecture in the Picturesque tradition, distinguished by its Baronial-style tower and a fine interior.