Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3214
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/10/1966
Date of Amendment
17/02/1997
Name of Property
Gazebo Tower to the SE of Maenan Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanddoged and Maenan
Town
Locality
Maenan
Easting
279580
Northing
364931
Street Side
Location
Located on a rise approximately 100m SE of Maenan Hall, overlooking the W side of the Vale of Conwy.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 gazebo or summerhouse, built to serve neighbouring Maenan Hall which underwent extension and alteration at that time. Restored from a ruin in 1959 by Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway, and her son Christopher; the work was supervised by S. Colwyn Ffoulkes, architect of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
Circular stone tower of two storeys with a flat parapetted roof; rubble construction with red brick dressings to openings. Round-arched opposing entrances to W and E with square flanking window openings to front (W) and external concrete steps to rear, accessing upper floor and roof; iron balustrade. Segmental arched recess to N with inscribed plaque within: 'In 1959 this tower, then a ruin, was restored by Christabel McLaren and Christopher McLaren. It was dedicated to Helios and to the summer of 1959 when the sun shone every day, no winds blew and no rain fell. Architect S. Colwyn Ffoulkes; Mason H.G. Griffith'. Arched windows to upper storey with blind rectangular flanking lights in brick, in Venetian window arrangement; small-pane casement glazing. To the centre of the front (W) side, a C20 oculus to the upper floor. A free-standing, life-sized marble statue of Helios stands within the lower space.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its origins as an unusual earlier C19 gazebo associated with Maenan Hall.
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