Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11846
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/09/1985
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Jersey Marine Tower
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Coedffranc
Town
Locality
Jersey Marine
Easting
271309
Northing
193694
Street Side
Location
On high ground S of the New Tower Hotel, W of the B4290.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built by 1867 to support a camera obscura. The Jersey Marine Hotel adjoining the Tower was demolished in 1965.
Exterior
The octagonal 4-stage tower survives as roofless shell. It is built of red brick with rusticated quoins of larger yellow bricks (some replaced in stone), and yellow brick dressings with stone keys and sills to the openings. On the E and W sides there are segmental-headed doorways in the lower stage, with segmental-headed windows in the other faces. The lower-stage openings have all been infilled. The middle stages also have segmental-headed windows while the upper stage has taller round-headed windows with key and impost blocks. The castellated crown projects on a moulded corbel table and is of banded red and yellow bricks. It has tall merlons with moulded copings.
Interior
The interior is now inaccessible, but retains some plaster to the walls and the joist sockets of the former upper floors. The first floor has a wooden chimneypiece on the N side.
Reason for designation
Listed as an eye-catcher folly in a prominent location.
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