Garden Tower at Loughanmore, Loughanmore Road, Dunadry, Antrim, Co Antrim

This is a 19th-century garden tower and spire, built as an eyecatcher to enhance the gardens and grounds of a country estate. It demonstrates a Gothic-inspired design, combining masonry construction with brickwork. While the formal 19th-century garden layout and the original Loughanmore House have disappeared, the tower retains a pleasant, pastoral setting. It contributes to an interesting group with adjacent towered outbuildings and a nearby ice house.

The tower is a tall structure of rectangular plan, built from shaped greystone fieldstones and rubble in two diminishing stages, topped with a circular brick spire and a ball finial. The lower stage has two Gothic vaulted openings that run completely through the tower – one east to west, and a smaller one north to south, both with red brick dressings. A projecting stone cornice runs along the first stage. The smaller second stage contains a similar Gothic brick vaulted opening running east to west at the base of the brick spire. On the south side, the tower is abutted by garden boundary walls projecting east and west, topped with looped ironwork railings that are not connected to the tower itself. The base of the tower has a wide splay or batter on the east face. The tower leans slightly to the north.

The tower stands within the grounds of the Loughanmore estate, to the east of related outbuildings and north of the ice house tower. It is located on the southern boundary of the former ornamental gardens, now a cleared field.

Although the precise date of construction is uncertain, the garden boundary it marks appeared on an Ordnance Survey map from 1832. It was likely built as a picturesque garden feature, probably between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as part of improvements to the estate carried out by Thomas Benjamin Adair.