Elsdon Tower : Description of The Exterior

The tower is a rectangular structure 13.15 m by 9.4 m, with its longer axis running east-south-east to west-north-west  (hereafter east-west); the walls are 2.6 m thick at ground level. Later buildings adjoin on the north and west.

The walls of the tower are of coursed rubble, with massive elongate quoins, and cut dressings, all of local sandstone or grit. The building is of three storeys, with a gabled cap-house within a parapet. There is a chamfered plinth (roughly hacked into on the south and west), and a projecting string-course at mid-height of rather unusual section, square below and chamfered above. The walls are capped by a slightly-projecting parapet, with a chamfered base course.