Cowmire Hall And Wall Running Approximately 20 Metres To East, With Gate Piers

The property is a late 16th-century tower house with a 17th-century addition. It is constructed of stone rubble, largely roughcast, with slate roofs. The east-facing facade extends over three storeys and six bays, arranged around a central entrance. Dripcourses are present. Windows are mostly wooden, chamfered cross-mullion style, with iron opening lights; ground-floor windows include intermediate bars, while the 5th and 6th bays feature paired windows. The entrance has limestone quoins, a round hood, and a six-fielded-panel door with an overlight. Gable-end stacks feature rounded shafts. The south return has 20th-century casement windows. The north return includes a window in a former entrance and second-floor casements, with three dripcourses.

The west wing, which forms the tower, has a four-light mullioned window with round-headed lights, an iron grille, and a label mound on its south side. A similar three-light window is present on the second floor. The north elevation of the tower has exposed stone and similar windows with flat relieving arches and wooden cross-mullion windows to the left. A later lean-to porch and flat-roofed porch are also present. Other features include a projecting gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack with rounded shafts, along with a lean-to garderobe projection. A glazed door and a cross-mullion window are located to the rear of a later wing on the south side of the west wing.

The interior includes reused beams on the ground floor, shaped brackets for hanging shelves, and a former kitchen fireplace with four stone posts, infill, and a cupboard with a wide-boarded door. A spice cupboard is located above the entrance passage. A stone fireplace bears a vine trail and a roundel with Fleming arms, while the fire back displays a lion passant, roses, and thistles dated 1649. A 17th-century six-panel door with a top relief frieze is also present, alongside a beam showing signs of an original partition. The tower contains two barrel-vaulted chambers; one features a six-bolection panel door and a bolection-moulded fireplace. The staircase has square newels with ball finials and pendants, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The first floor has two bolection-panel doors and some dado rails. The tower’s beams are hollow and chamfered, with run-out stops, and the garderobe features a wooden seat. The second floor exhibits two-panel doors and stud and plaster partitions. The roof has collar and tie trusses.

A stone rubble wall extends eastward from the north-east angle of the house. Towards the eastern end, the ashlar gate piers have cornices and ball finials.