Northern Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1997. Telephone kiosk.

Northern Towers

WRENN ID
long-buttress-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 November 1997
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Northern Towers, Tan-Yr-Ogof, Abergele, Llanddulas and Rhyd-Y-Foel
OS grid reference
SH 916 780
Coordinates
53.28805, -3.62682
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Northern Towers is an entrance gate featuring tall, square flanking towers with crenellated and corbelled battlements. The structure is built of limestone rubble with limestone dressings. It has a tall Tudor-arched entrance topped with a corbelled storey above, which includes six tall modern windows with plain glazing. The rear of the gate is modern shingle-hung. The towers have modern glazing in the Tudor-arched upper windows facing north. The right tower has been extended westwards in the later 19th century and includes two Rickman windows at the rear. At the front, there are short stretches of link wall that end in turrets with corbelled upper sections. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey in May 1997.

Local climate

Northern Towers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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