Tower House - Trust Annual Report 1983
Tower House, lingering nearly a year beyond the date of its sentence, was demolished suddenly one summer day. We regret its disappearance although we acknowledged defeat on that issue in the last Report. A lesser tragedy was the total destruction of its fabric; although not a house of fine materials, it had some features worth saving, but iron railings and all disappeared into the skip without trace. Perhaps the time has come for a new condition to be added to demolition-linked planning approvals, requiring the preservation and sale of specified items of the fabric. Another job for our overworked planners, but one to which the Trust would gladly give its aid in preparing lists of items potentially worth saving.