Look Out Tower in Garden to North of Pen Y Bryn is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Folly. 1 related planning application.
Look Out Tower in Garden to North of Pen Y Bryn
- WRENN ID
- carved-landing-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Look Out Tower in Garden to North of Pen Y Bryn, Mopla Road, Tidenham, NP16 7PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 537 950
- Coordinates
- 51.65236, -2.67024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The look-out tower in the garden to the north of Pen-Y-Bryn is a folly, likely built in the early 19th century. It is a hollow circular structure made of roughly coursed rubble, with much of the wall core exposed. The tower stands approximately 7 metres high and has an outside diameter of about 5 metres. There are two rough openings on opposite sides, facing roughly southeast and northwest. At the time of the survey in November 1983, the tower was noted to be in need of stabilisation.
Local climate
Look Out Tower in Garden to North of Pen Y Bryn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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