Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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