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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