The Look Out including adjoining walls is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Tower, wall.
The Look Out including adjoining walls
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-transept-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Tower, wall
- OS grid reference
- SH 613 419
- Coordinates
- 52.95658, -4.06495
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Look Out is a squat cylindrical tower with adjoining walls, constructed from local rubble and partly built on rock foundations. The tower has two stages and tapers slightly towards the top, featuring a broad string course and a rubble dome topped with an urn finial made of reconstituted stone. There is a balustraded opening facing the road, which has a shouldered rubble arch and a reconstituted stone balustrade. The rear has a plain entrance, and there are small square upper lights on the sides.
Adjacent to The Look Out is a short section of curved rubble wall that sweeps outwards towards the road in a convex shape. This wall then returns at a right angle to extend north-eastward for about 10 meters, standing at a height of 2.5 meters, and terminates into a hillslope. Towards the right of the center, there is a round-arched opening with a much eroded sandstone head acting as the keystone. Flanking rectangular lights accompany this opening, along with another similar opening in the north-east return section. A sandstone ball finial crowns the wall at the corner.
Local climate
The Look Out including adjoining walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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