Battledown Tower

Battledown Tower is a house built between 1863 and 1869, possibly designed by Henry Dangerfield, the Borough Engineer, for Charles Andrews, a speculator. The building features a mix of rubble stonework, laid in a 'crazily' manner, with ashlar and red and green stone dressings, ornate tile roofs, and ashlar end stacks with cornices. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and has an asymmetrical appearance.

The exterior consists of two-and-a-half storeys, with a belvedere tower featuring a saddleback roof on the northeast side and a tall single-storey range to the right. The façade includes two windows on the left and one on the right. A chamfered plinth supports cross-mullion windows with rounded upper corners and relieving arches made of alternately-coloured voussoirs. The attic windows have cusped lancets, and all windows are framed with quoined surrounds.

A Gothic gabled timber porch is located at the angle with a set-back bay to the right, featuring a double part-glazed pointed door adorned with Y-tracery, quatrefoils in the spandrels, and decorative barge-boards topped with a finial. Inside the porch, there is a pointed plank door in a chamfered surround with hollow- and roll-moulding at the head and a hoodmould with foliate stops. Above the porch, there is an oriel bow window on the first floor and a shaped gable on the attic dormer. To the right, a top-lit extension, which may serve as a kitchen or billiard room, has French windows in a shaped surround. The left-hand return features an initial 'R' carved in a panel on an extended chimney and three gables with decorative barge-boards.

The interior includes an open-well staircase with stick balusters, some windows with shutters, and a moulded cornice in the room to the left, although the rest of the interior was not inspected. Historically, the Battledown Estate was laid out in 1858 by Henry Dangerfield, and this house was one of the first three built on the estate. It was reportedly undergoing restoration at the time of review.