The Ivy Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 1999. Tower.
The Ivy Tower
- WRENN ID
- north-bonework-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1999
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Ivy Tower, Clyne Castle, Mumbles
- OS grid reference
- SS 613 908
- Coordinates
- 51.59907, -4.00344
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Ivy Tower is a round tower constructed from rubble sandstone, featuring putlog holes and an embattled parapet, although part of the parapet has fallen. On the eastern side, which is downhill, there are remains of the flue from the arsenic and copper works, consisting of rubble stone walls that lead to an opening with a rubble stone arch. The northern side has an inserted round-headed doorway with limestone dressings, although the right jamb is partly missing. A narrow round-headed window has been added to the parapet on the southern side. Inside, there are added stone steps that lead to a wall walk.
Local climate
The Ivy Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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