The Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Farmhouse.
The Towers
- WRENN ID
- drifting-bailey-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Towers, Llanfairfechan, LL33 0DA
- OS grid reference
- SH 679 753
- Coordinates
- 53.25905, -3.9815
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Towers is a two-storey house with an asymmetrical plan and a prominent corner tower. It features purple-grey slate roofs, with the tower banded in grey-green slates. The exterior is constructed from grey rubble laid to courses, accented with pale limestone dressings. The chimneys are made of grey and pale limestone, topped with buff ceramic pots.
The east elevation has two stone gabled dormers with paired Gothic windows on the first floor, along with a dormer featuring a single round-headed window. The ground floor includes a rectangular bay on the right, a square-headed doorway, and asymmetrical window arrangements. The south elevation displays two gables; the left gable has a less steep pitch, a corbelled chimney, a semi-hexagonal bay window, and a square-headed window on the first floor to the right. The right gable is steeper and features paired shouldered arched windows beneath a pointed relieving arch.
The west elevation consists of two bays, with gabled dormers that have paired Gothic windows. The ground floor has a doorway and paired square-headed windows. The north elevation features a projecting gable on the left with paired Gothic windows under a relieving arch, a ground floor bay window, and a porch that connects to the tower.
The tower, located at the northwest corner, is the most striking feature. It is cylindrical, two storeys high, plus a viewing stage. The ground floor has square-headed windows, while the first floor boasts Gothic arched windows with architraves that extend forward on corbels, breaking the eaves line. The roof is covered in banded fish scale slates and includes a viewing stage with Gothic traceried windows, topped by a conical roof with an iron pinnacle. There is also a corbelled cylindrical stair turret at the angle between the tower and the west elevation.
An attached single-storey service wing to the south matches the main building in style and materials, though it has been somewhat altered. The interior has been converted into holiday apartments but retains a stone flagged hall, a carved stone fireplace in the room adjoining the tower, and a cast-iron spiral staircase leading up to the viewing room in the tower.
Local climate
The Towers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
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