Gazebo Tower to the SE of Maenan Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 October 1966. Tower.

Gazebo Tower to the SE of Maenan Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 October 1966
Type
Tower
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Circular stone tower of two storeys with a flat parapetted roof; rubble construction with red brick dressings to openings. Round-arched opposing entrances to W and E with square flanking window openings to front (W) and external concrete steps to rear, accessing upper floor and roof; iron balustrade. Segmental arched recess to N with inscribed plaque within: 'In 1959 this tower, then a ruin, was restored by Christabel McLaren and Christopher McLaren. It was dedicated to Helios and to the summer of 1959 when the sun shone every day, no winds blew and no rain fell. Architect S. Colwyn Ffoulkes; Mason H.G. Griffith'. Arched windows to upper storey with blind rectangular flanking lights in brick, in Venetian window arrangement; small-pane casement glazing. To the centre of the front (W) side, a C20 oculus to the upper floor. A free-standing, life-sized marble statue of Helios stands within the lower space.

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