Harbour Watch-Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Watch-tower.

Harbour Watch-Tower

WRENN ID
dusted-ledge-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Watch-tower
Address
Harbour Watch-Tower, Margam Moors
OS grid reference
SS 751 885
Coordinates
51.58233, -3.80341
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Harbour Watch-Tower is a two-storey octagonal structure built in the 19th century, featuring battlemented parapets. It is made of stone, with the lower storey constructed from coursed rubble and quoins, while the upper storey is finished with dressed stone. The parapets have a moulded coping that supports dressed crenellations at the corners. The main facade faces west towards the sea and includes a doorway with a segmental head made of voussoirs and a wooden door frame. Above this door is a window opening with a similar head, flanked by two matching windows on the side faces. There are two additional tall, rectangular windows on the south and northeast faces, both with flat heads. The original door and glazing are no longer present.

Inside, four cast iron I-section beams once supported a low floor between the ground and upper storeys, and additional cast iron beams support the ceiling of the upper floor. On the north side at ground level, there is a circular hole in the wall lined with cast iron, which may have been intended for a telescope. Above this, there is blocking in the wall beneath a cast iron lintel, which could have been for a fireplace.

Local climate

Harbour Watch-Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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