Conygar Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Folly.
Conygar Tower
- WRENN ID
- vacant-belfry-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Conygar Tower, Dunster, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 441
- Coordinates
- 51.18721, -3.44402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Conygar Tower is a folly built in 1775. It features an embattled circular shell made of random rubble red sandstone and stands three storeys high. Each floor has four pointed-arched openings, with two-stage buttresses positioned between them. The tower is prominently located at the top of a wooded hill and serves as an important landscape feature that overlooks the village.
Local climate
Conygar Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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