Armstrong Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Commercial premises. 2 related planning applications.
Armstrong Towers
- WRENN ID
- old-parapet-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1989
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Armstrong Towers, Pen-Y-Coed, Llangollen, LL20 8LN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 223 419
- Coordinates
- 52.96911, -3.15837
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Armstrong Towers is a two-storey, three-window symmetrical house built in an unusual picturesque Gothic style. The house was constructed at an unknown date, likely in the 19th century. The exterior is painted roughcast with a plinth and painted pilasters on the ends. It has a slate roof and cement-rendered chimney stacks, with an eaves band. The windows are broad, small-pane sashes set in acutely pointed openings. The upper sashes on the first floor feature diamond glazing and kite-shaped tracery, with the same design applied to the fanlights above the ground floor windows. A sixteen-pane sash sits over a gabled porch with a glazed door in the centre. A low, flat-roofed extension is attached to the left. The rear elevation has three windows and includes flat-roofed dormers, nine-pane sashes on the first floor, and ground floor splayed bays with a porch. The interior features inserted ceiling beams in the hall and a simple 19th-century staircase, but lacks Gothic detailing.
Local climate
Armstrong Towers receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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