The Tower

The Tower is a rectangular tower house with a small single-storey extension to the east. It was built using stone rubble and has a stone tile roof with end stacks, the north chimney aligning with the main internal flues. The walls are very thick and deeply battered, with the batter extending two-thirds of their height. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The south side features a window at each level; the two upper windows are deep-set, renewed mullioned windows under a hoodmould, while the ground floor has a wide tripartite sash with a narrow hoodmould cut into the batter. The west side has two casement windows, the lower one long and also cut into the batter, with narrow stone sills and hoods. To the left is a shallow corbelled bay at first floor level, corresponding to the internal staircase. The north elevation has, at attic level, a window with a timber lintel and dripmould with hollow chamfered mullions. The first floor has a three-pane casement window with a timber lintel and hoodmould, and the ground floor has the main entrance, approached by a flight of stone steps with a coped retaining wall and a battered buttress to the right. The doorway has a large timber lintel, chamfered square-headed surround, and a Tudor-arched head to the boarded door. The east elevation has a side entrance by the single-storey laundry extension, with a small end stack, stone steps leading upwards, and a first-floor window.

The building follows a plan of a single main room on each floor, with a stone staircase in the corner. The ground floor, on two levels, has five cross beams and joists supported by massive corbels and posts. A door has wide horizontal planks and lock and key fittings. A former main kitchen chimney is located to the north, and a small open fireplace is in the south wall. A reportedly inaccessible cellar is situated beneath the ground floor. The former hall on the first floor has high cross beams. Wide window embrasures have heavy timber lintels, and there are unusually two adjacent fireplaces in the north and east walls; the latter is unused and has a huge stone lintel flanked by two corbels, with a former fireplace to the south. There are also wide oak floorboards and corbels for a former upper storey. The attic storey has pegged A-frame trusses and three rows of trenched purlins, with a pointed archway leading to the former upper storey/roof. A parapet of the former wall walk is now visible inside the upper storey.