Telford's Tower, Including Adjoining Walls and Arches is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Telford's Tower, Including Adjoining Walls and Arches
- WRENN ID
- silent-eave-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Telford's Tower, Including Adjoining Walls and Arches, LL48 6ER
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 372
- Coordinates
- 52.91393, -4.09918
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Telford's Tower is a square tower with three storeys above a basement, accompanied by a single-storey rectangular range to the east, creating an overall L-plan. The building features stucco elevations and slate roofs, with the tower section having a pyramidal roof that includes feathered eaves and an urn finial. On the south side of the tower, which faces the village, there is a canted oriel on the ground floor with a sloped metal roof, containing a central 6-pane window flanked by 3-pane outer lights. Above this oriel, there is an 8-pane vertical window with external wooden slatted shutters and a shallow segmental arch above it. The upper storey is slightly recessed and has a 6-pane window, with similar windows on the side elevations.
The adjoining block features steps leading up to an arched entrance on the left, which has a multi-pane glazed door. To the right, there is a Venetian window, and on the eastern gable end, there is a blind recessed oculus above. To the right of this block, there is a rendered and tile-coped wall that steps up over two round-headed arches with volutes on the sides. To the right of these arches is a larger rusticated arch, which is topped with stone Royal arms featuring lion and unicorn supporters. A short link section connects this structure with the adjoining Unicorn.
Local climate
Telford's Tower, Including Adjoining Walls and Arches sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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