Listed Building: FRESTON TOWER HOUSE AND COTTAGE (277289)

TM 13 NE FRESTON FRESTON PARK 4/10 Freston Tower House and Cottage GV II House. Now subdivided. C16 range with late C16 south gable end with substantial later alterations and additions and major renovation of c1979. Timber-framed range with orange brick gable end and stack with blue diapering, partial casing of timber range and additions in red brick in Flemish bond. 1st floor of west front rendered. Plain tile roofs. 4-bay framed range with additions forming a courtyard plan. Original range: 2 storeys, 4 bays with 2 later bays added to north with cellar. West front: C20 casement windows. Raised brick gables and kneelers. To rear a later addition under a pent roof. Right gable end has massive external crow-stepped stack. Tower House interior: ground floor exposed spine beam, two chamfered cross beams and joists (somewhat restored). Stout timber frame exposed at 1st floor level: jowled posts and chamfered tie beams with run-out stops showing mortices and pegs for missing arch braces. Edge-halved scarf to hall plate of which one side has been renewed. Studded partition and end wall. Clasped purlin roof with wind braces. The house had been subdivided into 4 cottages and was derelict by the 1970's. It underwent an extensive renovation at that time, being divided into 3 units. The framed range now forms Tower House. Listing NGR: TM1780139614