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
19036
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/1997
Date of Amendment
12/11/1997
Name of Property
Lady Eleanor's Tower
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-Foel
Town
Abergele
Locality
Gwrych Castle
Easting
291862
Northing
377631
Street Side
S
Location
Strikingly located on a wooded crag, set back from and above the road; approximately 750m W of Gwrych Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Early C20; constructed for Countess Dundonald of Gwrych Castle and one of the last of a number of folly towers, gates and similar erections built on the estate from c1819 until the beginning of the first war. Traditionally said to have been built by the grieving countess in 1915 to commemorate the loss of her son at sea.
Exterior
Square tower of two-and-a-half stages; of local limestone rubble on rock foundations. Segmentally-headed window openings to N E and W with access to the S; large corner crenellations give fictive battlements.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a striking folly tower on the Gwrych estate, part of this nationally important Picturesque composition.
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