NHER 5116 (Building record) - The Tower House

Tower.
Called race course stand by (S1).
Crenellated red brick square building with round stair turret. Nearby detached portion ruinous.
Now in use as cottage.
Date? Ogee windows in ground floor suggest late 18th to early 19th century.
E. Rose (NAU) 16 August 1975.

Documentary work by J. Phipps, National Trust, shows this was built as two rooms and a tower 1773, converted to house about 1860.
E. Rose (NAU) 19 November 1981.

Probably designed by Thomas and William Ivory.
E. Rose (NAU) 1 October 1985.

(S2) notes that the house was added in 1857. The building was formerly whitewashed.
E. Rose (NAU) 1 September 1993.

Casual Observation, 25 April 2007.
Building in excellent condition having been thoroughly restored. It should be noted that the racecourse in question lay to the south (where there was a wood called Racecourse Plantation) not within the park to the north.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 April 2007.