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
3525
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
The Towers
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Easting
267919
Northing
375391
Street Side
Location
On prominent sea front site at junction of Caradog Place and Promenade set in large walled garden.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1870 as part of proposed yacht marina by John Platt, of Bryn-y-Neuadd Hall.
Exterior
Two storey house with asymmetrical plan and conspicuous corner tower. Purple-grey slate roofs (tower banded with grey-green slates). Grey rubble laid to courses with pale limestone dressings. Chimneys also in grey and pale limestone with buff ceramic pots. Asymmetrical picturesque plan. East elevation first floor has 2 stone gabled dormers with paired Gothic windows, and dormer with single round headed window. Ground floor has rectangular bay to R, square-headed doorway and asymmetrical fenestration. South elevation has 2 gables, that to L less steeply pitched with chimney corbelled out, semi-hexagonal bay window, and square-headed window on first floor on R; gable to R steeper has paired shouldered arched window under pointed relieving arch. West elevation of 2 bays, gabled dormers with paired Gothic windows; on ground floor, doorway and paired square-headed windows. North elevation has, to L, projecting gable with paired Gothic windows under relieving arch; ground floor bay window; porch in angle with set back wall connecting with tower. Most prominent feature is tower at NW corner, cylindrical two-storeys plus viewing stage. Ground floor has square-headed windows, first floor has Gothic arched windows with architraves (mounted forward on corbels) which break up into eaves line. Roof in banded fish scale slates has viewing stage with Gothic traceried windows surmounted by conical roof with iron pinnacle. In angle between tower and W elevation, corbelled cylindrical stair turret.
Attached single-storey service wing to S in matching style and materials, somewhat altered.
Interior
Interior converted to holiday apartments but retains stone flagged hall, carved stone fireplace in room which adjoins tower, and cast0iron spiral staircase up to viewing room in tower.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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