The Ivy Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. Tower.
The Ivy Tower
- WRENN ID
- slow-plaster-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1963
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Ivy Tower, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85821, -3.13728
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Ivy Tower is a 2-storey rounded rubble tower, which has been later topped with a crenellated parapet featuring plain copings. It includes various openings, notably a medieval window facing the road, which has a semicircular head above paired cusped lights. To the left, there is a crenellated wall that has a similar window and a boarded door. The low remains of a left-hand gate tower now serve as a garden wall for the Warden's cottage. Additionally, there is a small section of contemporary rubble wall with jamb stone located beyond the right-hand tower.
Local climate
The Ivy Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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