North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. Tower.
North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house
- WRENN ID
- empty-lintel-soot
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house, Felindre, Gwernyfed, LD3 0SU
- OS grid reference
- SO 182 365
- Coordinates
- 52.02129, -3.19221
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The North Tower is located in the inner front garden, connected to the northeast wing of the house by a garden boundary wall. This circular tower, built of rubble sandstone, stands two storeys tall and features a conical stone slated roof. It may have originally served as a dovecote on the upper floor, similar to the south tower, but is now plastered internally. The tower has two 2-light hollow chamfered stone windows.
On the ground floor, there is a depressed Tudor chamfered doorcase at the garden corner. The upper floor can be accessed independently via a walled dog-leg stair that leads from a Tudor headed gate in the north garden wall. The upper floor originally had a raking roof and features a similar chamfered stone doorcase at the top of the stair, complete with a label above. The upper chamber is ceiled.
A rebuilt rubble stone wall extends from the tower to the corner of the northeast wing of the house.
Local climate
North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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