Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18658
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/1950
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Tower on Tower Hill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Abergele
Easting
295239
Northing
375985
Street Side
Location
The tower stands on the highest point of the hill, commanding extensive views of the Clwydian Range, the Lancashire coast, and to the W, Snowdonia.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The tower, sometimes called the Eleanor Tower, was probably built by Bamford Hesketh as part of the extensive medievalising works at Gwrych, although woodland has now interrupted the direct view from the castle. It may be a rebuild of an earlier tower, one of the series of watch towers built along the N Welsh coast.
Exterior
Built of local Carboniferous limestone. A circular tower of walls approximately 1.3m thick, rising from a low battered plinth to approximately 10m, being 3m in diameter and of 2 storeys. Door openings on the N and S, with segmental heads. An offset in the wall carried the upper floor, now missing, which has one fireplace each side, and two square window openings, one each side of each fireplace. Parapet with crenels.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as probably part of the picturesque landscape associated with the important medieval revival castle of Gwrych.
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