Thistlewood Tower

Thistlewood Tower is a fortified tower with an extension, likely dating from the early 15th century, with alterations in the 16th century and a later 17th-century extension. The tower's thick walls are constructed of red sandstone rubble, featuring flush quoins, and are now covered by a gabled roof of red sandstone slate, with small chimney stacks also of red sandstone. The extension is built with dark-pink sandstone rubble walls, flush cream sandstone quoins, and an eaves cornice, set on a chamfered plinth. It has a Welsh slate roof with bottom courses of sandstone slate and banded red sandstone chimney stacks.

The tower is rectangular, with two storeys over a basement. The basement has small loops for lighting. Other original windows have been blocked and replaced with two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. The extension has a 20th-century central door set within a chamfered 17th-century surround beneath a drip mould, alongside two-light stone-mullioned windows with drip moulds.

The interior of the tower is believed to be of some interest, though access was unavailable at the time of the survey. Small single-storey additions to the tower are considered of no significance.