The two-storey 14th-century tower is the former residence of Italian procurators of the abbot of Vercelli in Italy.

It stands in the former vicarage garden of nearby St Andrew's Church, Chesterton.

Built from field stones, clunch, brick and ashlar quoins, the tower is, unusually, not a fragment but a complete dwelling with vaulted ceilings, a spiral staircase and garderobe.

[2] In 1217 as an expression of gratitude for his assistance in preventing civil war, the Chesterton church was given by Henry III to the Papal Legate Cardinal Guala.

A procurator, probably a canon of the abbey, resided at the tower and represented the foreign ownership.