Former Banqueting Tower, about 300m SE of Orielton Field Centre is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Tower.
Former Banqueting Tower, about 300m SE of Orielton Field Centre
- WRENN ID
- graven-niche-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Early to mid C18 belvedere tower, formerly with banqueting room. Rubble stone, red brick and Bath stone dressings. Massive three-storey square plan tower in early Georgian style. Squat roughcast ground floor with broad camber-headed carriage arches N and S, cut stone voussoirs and raised keystone. Upper floors are red brick with Bath stone alternating quoins, two red brick string-courses with raised Bath stone angle blocks and large window openings in rusticated surrounds with flat ashlar heads and raised keystones. Stone sills. Stone string-course under high brick parapet with ashlar angle piers and moulded ashlar coping. E side is windowless and ivy-clad, first-floor blank opening visible; N front is also obscured by ivy. Indications of roughcast over brickwork on first floor E, and of a gabled low building running E from E wall.
Roofless and floorless but has remnants of fielded plaster panels and corner fireplaces.
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