Pigeon-tower at Haulfryn is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1998. Pigeon tower.
Pigeon-tower at Haulfryn
- WRENN ID
- ruined-quartz-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1998
- Type
- Pigeon tower
- Address
- Pigeon-tower at Haulfryn, Abersoch, Pwllheli, Llanengan
- OS grid reference
- SH 314 281
- Coordinates
- 52.82414, -4.50282
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pigeon-tower at Haulfryn is a 20th-century structure built in dark red brick and features a hexagonal shape topped with a lead hexagonal roof. The tower has a severe appearance, with a raised plinth and piers or strips at each corner. It is finished with a corbelled plain top and has inset roofing with brick-panelled low walls. On the south side, there is an oak plank door with a lead date plaque reading 'F C Minoprio Liverpool 1922' above it, along with three dove-holes that have small ledges above. The other sides of the tower also feature three dove-holes located beneath the corbel level.
Local climate
Pigeon-tower at Haulfryn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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